Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design

Figure 3. Video example 2 of MODELER found at http://youtu.be/htsAWLYfBXQ Read and Talk. The Read and Talk component of the package refers to reading a book and talking about it through making comments or asking questions. The Read and Talk components create a learning environment that would be typical of an early childhood shared reading context. Variants of shared storybook reading, such as dialogic reading, that includes engaging in conversation with the child, has extensive empirical support in general education (Dale et al., 1996; Whitehurst et al., 1988), special education (Ezell & Justice, 2005), and AAC specific literatures (Bedroisian, 1999; Sennott et al., 2014; Stephenson, 2009). 35