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Communication Supports for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Extensive Support Needs

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Abstract

Effective communication skills are essential to high quality of life outcomes for all students. This chapter describes an approach and several strategies for teaching communication skills to students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and extensive support needs (ESN). It offers guidance across several areas of educational programming including assessment, augmentative alternative communication, teaching basic communication skills, and promoting generalization.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer International Handbooks of Education
Pages331-347
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025

Publication series

NameSpringer International Handbooks of Education
VolumePart F910
ISSN (Print)2197-1951
ISSN (Electronic)2197-196X

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

Keywords

  • Augmentative alternative communication
  • Communication intervention
  • Extensive support needs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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