The Effect of an Augmentative Communication Intervention on the Communication, Behavior, and Academic Program of an Adolescent with Autism

摘要: This classroom intervention describes a nonverbal and behaviorally cognitively challenged adolescent with autism who participates in data-based, total immersion, augmentative communication intervention. Using natural aided language approach picture boards, the student was provided intense visualpaired-with-verbal-language input each activity environment of his school day. Without training or prompting, young man’s receptive expressive vocabulary increased during In addition, positive behaviors increased. The increases dramatically altered staff’s perception student, as result, curriculum IEP were made more complex, academic, challenging.