Communication Training Videos
“Rock Your Classroom” – Focus on Communication – Evidence-based Practices for Embedding Communication Skills
Internet Resources Related to Communication
2.d Emphasis on language and communication
- Communication Skills (TATS page link)
- Teaching New Vocabulary Words and Concepts – published by University of Arizona
- Strategies for Encouraging Communication – one-page pdf from Virtual Lab School of University of Ohio
- Teaching the Communication of “Yes – No” – one page pdf from Project Core – UNC – Center for Early Learning and Literacy
- Using Adapted Books to Encourage Communication – examples and links from Boston Children’s Hospital
- Encouraging Oral Language – Summary of Suggestions from Learning to Talk and Listen, a project by National Institute of Literacy
- On the Same Page – Helping Team Members Respond to Individual Modes of Commumication
3b. Conversations are encouraged and observed
- Facilitating Peer Interaction – Facilitating Communication during Peer Interactions – published by University of Arizona
- Talk, Read, and Sing Together Every Day – Ideas for engaging children in conversation – published by partnership of Too Young to Fail, Head Start, and Center for Early Learning and Literacy – pdf
- Word Games for Listening and Talking – resource from Center for Early Learning and Literacy, US Office of Special Education – pdf
- Reading with Children is an Opportunity for Conversation – Summary of Suggestions from Learning to Talk and Listen, a project of National Institute of Literacy
Links below: Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in PreK classrooms and Resources for Core Vocabulary
- Resources related to AAC and Core Vocabulary
- Modeling the Use of Core Words – one page pdf from Project Core – UNC – Center for Early Learning and Literacy
- Using Core Vocabulary during Classroom Routines – suggestions from UNC at Chapel Hill – Center for Learning and Disability Services – pdf