Communication & Socialization

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    Early intervention for young children with autism...
    This site from Penn State includes step-by-step guidelines for early intervention to build language and communication skills, and photographs and videotaped examples of intervention with young children with special needs (autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, and other disabilities).
  • GoTalk communication devices from Attainment Company
    Videos about the GoTalk communication devices from the Attainment Company website. There are overview videos as well as a couple of videos showing children using the device.
  • Phase I PECS
    Video about PECS.
  • Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood Education
    This website from Western Illinois University includes training topics for staff on educating young children, with recommendations, support materials, and best practices. This resource center provides many articles with specific curriculum activities and ideas for implementation, as well as the...
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication-Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
    This website is from the Augmentative and Alternative Communication-Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (AAC-RERC). The site includes webcasts on topics such as AAC and Children, as well as educational and funding resources.
  • Emotion and Scenario Cards
    This website provides special learning resources for professionals and caregivers who serve individuals with special needs, through technology and the web. Here you can find handouts, as well as instructions on how to make or how to do something. For example, you can learn how to draw a picture,...
  • Playing with Switches
    This booklet, "Playing with Switches," from the Let's Play Project describes types of switches, switch toys, and other suggestions for adapted play.
  • Assistive Technology Interventions (Module 5)
    Module 5 of the University of North Carolina's FPG Child Development Institute website provides a 5 step decision-making process for teachers, parents and caregivers to determine whether or not an assistive technology intervention is appropriate for children in specific contexts. This website...
  • Helping Your Child Understand and Communicate
    A video and information on making and using visual supports. Parent testimony.
  • You Got It! Teaching Social and Emotional Skills
    This is an article titled "You Got It! Teaching Social and Emotional Skills," published in Young Children, November 2006. This article emphasizes planned instruction on specific social and emotional skills for children at risk for developing more challenging behavior. It describes using the...