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  2. READ 180 - Wikipedia

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    READ 180 was founded in 1985 by Ted Hasselbring and members of the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt University.With a grant from the United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education, Dr. Hasselbring developed software that used student performance data to individualize and differentiate the path of computerized reading instruction. [2]

  3. Augmentative and alternative communication - Wikipedia

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    The poet and author Christy Brown describes his communication breakthrough at 5 years in the book My Left Foot. An evaluation of an individual's abilities, limitations and communication needs is necessary to select appropriate AAC techniques. The purpose of the assessment is to identify potential AAC approaches that can bridge discrepancies between a potential user's current communication and ...

  4. Fountas and Pinnell reading levels - Wikipedia

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    Literacy. v. t. e. Fountas & Pinnell reading levels (commonly referred to as "Fountas & Pinnell") are a proprietary system of reading levels developed by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell and published by Heinemann to support their Levelled Literacy Interventions (LLI) series of student readers and teacher resource products. [1]

  5. Speech Therapy for Autism: How It Works - Healthline

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    Picture exchange communication system ... You can learn more about how we ensure our content is accurate and current by reading our ... (2023). Review of intervention methods for language and ...

  6. AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Autism

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    AAC also helps non-verbal autistic individuals communicate with their peers. Augmentative and alternative communication can include both aided and unaided communication. Unaided Modes. Unaided ...

  7. Marie Clay - Wikipedia

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    Clay developed the Reading Recovery a whole language intervention programme, which was adopted by all New Zealand schools in 1983. In 1985, teachers and researchers from Ohio State University brought Reading Recovery to the United States. Reading Recovery is an early intervention for at-risk students in grade one that is designed to close gaps ...

  8. Apgar Score: Chart, Definition, Normal, Baby, and More

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    The Apgar scoring system is divided into five categories. Each category receives a score of 0 to 2 points. At most, a child will receive an overall score of 10. However, a baby rarely scores a 10 ...

  9. Reading for special needs - Wikipedia

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    The Simple View of Reading was originally described by Gough and Tunmer in 1986 [7] and modified by Hoover and Gough in 1990. [8] The Simple View suggests that the ultimate goal of reading comprehension, and in order to have good reading comprehension, one needs to have good decoding ability (e.g., ability to interpret the symbols) and good listening comprehension (e.g., one's ability to ...