Teaching children with severe disabilities to utilize nonobligatory conversational opportunities: An application of high-probability requests

Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-68

  Davis, Carol A ^a   Reichle, Joe ^a   Southard, Kristin ^a   Johnston, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Motor impairments; Nonvocal communication; Peer tutoring; Special education

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749298904     PISSN: 07491425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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