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Break down literacy barriers to enrich the lives of students with significant disabilities!
All educators and family members would agree that depriving any student of the enhanced self-esteem, independence, social skills, and general quality of life afforded by literacy would be wrong. However, because of the particular challenges-perceived or otherwise-of providing literacy instruction to children and youth with significant disabilities, these students are often overlooked in receiving meaningful experiences and equal access to this aspect of the core curriculum.
Teaching Literacy to Students With Significant Disabilities offers tangible support for obliterating the obstacles to effective literacy instruction, including:
Effective strategies for tailoring literacy materials to students with disabilities; Tactics for adapting state standards and meeting No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requirements; Straightforward chapter summaries, frequently asked questions, Web sites, and other resources that reinforce key points; Easy-to-implement planning and assessment guidelines
Brimming with practical ideas, tips, and examples, this definitive guide offers K-12 educators the research findings and means for creating an inclusive environment that encourages students with significant disabilities to become actively engaged in literacy learning. It empowers teachers, family members, and all team members with creative, sensitive, and all-embracing ways to successfully set and meet realistic communication-development goals that yield lifelong benefits.
Literacy and Communication
Literacy and Communication
Key Concepts
- A close relationship exists between literacy and communication.
- Typical activities that involve social interaction and positive relationships facilitate children's acquisition of literacy skills.
- Adaptations and accommodations can be used to support a child's active involvement in literacy activities.
- Emergent literacy skills are important not only for young children, but for those of all ages.
- The use of augmentative communication devices strongly supports the development of literacy as messages are selected.
- Shared experiences can be drawn, photographed, or tactilely represented for literacy learning.
Communication and literacy are integrally related. Communication supplies the basic foundation for literacy learning and, as such, makes it possible for everyone to experience literacy (McSheehan, Sonnenmeier, & Jorgensen, 2002; Neuman, 1999). Anyone engaged in a communicative act is also engaged in the ...
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