Breaking the Speech Barrier: Language Development Through Augmented Means [Large Print]

Name: Wonderful for graduate students in communicative disorders
Item: Breaking the Speech Barrier: Language Development Through Augmented Means
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by Mary Ann Romski

In school, but "locked out" 13 youth, each with fewer than 10 productive words to use to build their relationship with families, teachers, and friends. That is, until they were introduced to the System for Augmenting Language, or SAL. In a wonderful meshing of science and the real world, this remarkable book chronicles the process of language learning through augmented means for people who have significant difficulty acquiring spoken language.

In engaging storytelling style, speech-language pathologist Romski and psychologist Sevcik describe how they carried their research from language lab to school and in the process changed the lives of the youth to whom they brought the SAL. A replicable system that fosters naturalistic exchanges between communicative partners using electronic speech-output devices, the SAL extends the power of communication to children otherwise locked out of the world around them. With a new level of vocabulary mastery, students enjoy not only enhanced communicative skills but also higher judgments of competence from both familiar and unfamiliar observers. One award-winning SAL application, Project FACTT (Facilitating Augmentative Communication Through Technology) provides innovative augmentative communication services to school-age children with severe disabilities and is described in detail.

Format:Paperback

Large Print:Yes

Language:English

ISBN:1557663904

ISBN13:9781557663900

Release Date:December 1998

Publisher:Paul H Brookes Publishing

Length:220 Pages

Weight:0.78 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Wonderful for graduate students in communicative disorders

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago

I am a graduate student at Gallaudet University. After owning library late fees, I decided to purchase my own copy of this book. This will be a great general reference to anything related to communication disorders and mental retardation in future papers and future job practice as a researcher.

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