Tangible Symbol Systems: Making the Right to Communicate a Reality for Individuals with Severe Disabilities

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Tangible Symbol Systems: Making the Right to Communicate a Reality for Individuals with Severe Disabilities


Children with multiple and/or severe disabilities may not be able to speak, sign, or communicate with others--this may cause inclusion in early childhood programs to be significantly more challenging. The following tool was developed for teachers, disabilities specialists, and family members to help these children use symbols to express wants, needs, and desires.

Tangible Symbol Systems: Making the Right to Communicate a Reality for Individuals with Severe Disabilities Research on the development of communication in infants without disabilities has shown that parents and infants communicate with each other soon after the infant is born. This knowledge has helped us to understand that speech is not the only way to communicate and that we can teach individuals with severe communication disorders to communicate using a variety of other means. More>>

Tangible Symbol Systems: Making the Right to Communicate a Reality for Individuals with Severe Disabilities. ED/OSERS/OSEP. 2000. English.

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