Increasing communication in children with concurrent vision and hearing loss

Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 59-70

  Brady, Nancy C ^a   Bashinski, Susan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Gestures; Hearing impairment; Intentional communication; Intervention; Presymbolic communication; Unaided communication; Vision loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549095144     PISSN: 15407969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2511/rpsd.33.1-2.59     Document Type: Article

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