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Research Supporting Conceptual Vocabulary

Author-Avatar erickson@unc.edu

5/2/2016 2:13 AM

There is one recent study that specifically targeted conceptual vocabulary in an AAC intervention for a child with multiple disabilities including deafblindness. You can find more about it here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24229336

Basically, the authors used a modified PECS procedure to teach the boy to communicate MORE, DONE, and NEW when presented with a variety of preferred and nonpreferred objects or engaged in a variety of preferred and nonpreferred activities. The boy learned the conceptually referenced tactile symbols.

We are focusing on the words GO, LIKE, and NOT in our work with students with the most complex needs including deafblindness, and we're finding those three words can be used to communicate for many different purposes across many contexts.

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