Communication Disorders Quarterly articles from January 2007

Communication Disorders Quarterly archives from January 2007

Strategies for promoting literacy for students who have physical disabilities.
January 1, 2007... Teaching beginning reading to children with physical and speech impairments can be especially challenging. One reading strategy, known as the Nonverbal Reading Approach, is specifically designed to promote decoding and word reading for this...

Children with significant hearing loss: learning to listen, talk, and read--evidence-based best practices.
January 1, 2007... A considerable body of evidence obtained from studies of children who are deaf and who use cochlear implants has been useful in guiding practices that lead to higher levels of English language proficiency and age-appropriate literacy. Both (a)...

Communicative functions of African American head start children.
January 1, 2007... Children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are more often over- and underreferred for special education services than children from the mainstream culture. In fact, African American children, particularly boys, are more...

English-speaking Latino parents' literacy practices in Southern California.
January 1, 2007... This study surveyed the literacy practices of 45 English-speaking parents of Latino kindergarten through second graders using English questionnaires. The results of the survey were similar in many respects to other studies of English-speaking...

Parent interactions with twins who are developmentally different: a case study.
January 1, 2007... Language and social interactions were examined between a father and mother and their twin children, one with Down syndrome and one developing typically. Systematic observations were made of videotaped segments and coded in real time using a...

Maximizing the potential of learners with special education needs.(From the Field)(Interview)
January 1, 2007... Eric Jensen is the well-known author and co-author of numerous books for educators about how to apply brain science to learning and education, including Teaching With the Brain in Mind, Arts With the Brain in Mind, and his 2006 book, Enriching...