Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design

Resource Description Link Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs Resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs. teachinglearnerswit hmultipleneeds.blo gspot.com Table 1. AAC intervention web resources Communication Practices from the Autism Internet Modules The Autism Internet Modules have some terrific overviews of popular approaches to communication intervention for individuals with complex communication needs. 1. Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) 2. Pivotal Response Training 3. Naturalistic Intervention 4. Functional Communication Training 5. Speech Generating Devices These concise modules overview the essentials of a practice or concept along with reviewing key research findings and provide checklists for implementation. The National Joint Committee, A Communication Bill of Rights (NJC, 1992) is an important document outlining the human and civil rights of people with complex communication needs. This document draws connections to the concepts of inclusion, self-determination, universal design for learning, the least dangerous assumption, and valuing the human dignity of all people. Some of these rights are more straightforward, such as “8. The right to have access at all times to any 27