Teaching Practical Communication Skills (Innovations (Washington, D.C. : 1994).)

Teaching Practical Communication Skills discusses strategies to teach students to request their preferences, protest non-preferred activities, and clarify misunderstandings. This instructional manual provides practitioners with strategies that have been field tested with more than 200 children and adults in community, residential, vocational, and educational settings. Included are suggestions for instruction of students who communicate in various modes, including gestural, verbal, sign language, and communication boards.