Background Intellectual development disorder (IDD) is a challenging disorder that
professionals, most notably teachers, are confronted with daily. Supporting oral language in …

Objective: Tablets have successfully been used with individuals with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities to request preferred items, label …

Previous research has evaluated the effects of prompt rates on the rate of communicative
behavior. More recent research has suggested that dense prompting can result in …

Even though use of aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) by staff has
been extensively researched, few studies relate to unaided AAC strategies such as key word …

Key word signing (KWS) is an unaided form of augmentative and alternative communication
(AAC) and is frequently used by children with cognitive impairments and their families …

Accessible summary We taught teachers sign language to use with children with a disability
We asked teachers if they liked the training and learning signs We tested their memory of …

The development of programs aimed to promote self-determination in students with
disabilities is a very popular research topic. Many of these programs have obtained the …

Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special
populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the …

The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between the use of key word
signing (KWS) by support staff and by adults with intellectual disabilities (clients) who had …

This study examined the effect of a 1-day, 6-hour key word signing (KWS) workshop on in-
service special education teachers' and speech-language pathologists'(SLPs)(a) skill …