Empowering Students with Severe Disabilities to Actualize Communication Skills

Cascella, Paul W.; McNamara, Kevin M.

doi:10.1177/004005990503700306

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“…Communication forms utilized in therapy by individuals diagnosed with I/DD can include, but are not limited to, reaching out, body orientation, facial expression, vocalizations, leading, eye gaze, gestures, head nods, Sign Language, pictures and icons, and voice output devices (Caldwell, 2013;Cascella & McNamara, 2005;Graham, 2004). These communicative actions have functions that cover a wide range of intentions including to convey their emotions, make a choice, make requests, indicate dissent.…”

Section: Communic Ommunication and Inf Ation And Information Sour Ormation Sourc Ces Esmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Harold used a variety of communication methods pieced together to meaningfully dialogue about his internal feeling states and experience with the loss of his mother (Caldwell, 2013;Cascella, 2005). The music allowed Harold, who had some physical limitations that may have prevented him from creating music that accurately matched what he needed to express, to describe and then hear how he was feeling musically re-flected.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Communication and processing take many forms including movement, sound, silence, and others (Caldwell, 2013;Cascella, 2005;Graham, 2004;Swaney, 2017). Body based communication adds elements of embodied understanding and expression to otherwise primarily vision and sound-based strategies.…”

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Significant Moments in Improvisational Music Therapy

Beebe¹

2021

Voices

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Four composite case examples are presented and discussed as they relate to emotional expression, significant moments in the therapeutic process, and communication using a variety of modalities in music therapy with adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Building on therapeutic awareness through discussing musical elements, body movement and posture, countertransference, and interactional patterns, the implications of deep emotional connection and processing are approached using primarily nonverbal methods. Composite vignettes from the author’s clinical work demonstrate awareness of these factors in the moment as they impacted the session, therapeutic relationship, and other professionals’ understanding of music therapy in this population. Implications for emotional processing in clinical practice are presented as they relate to the concepts presented in this paper.

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Section: Communic Ommunication and Inf Ation And Information Sour Ormation Sourc Ces Esmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Significant Moments in Improvisational Music Therapy

Beebe¹

2021

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“…Poznavanje specifičnih karakteristika komunikacije neke osobe sa težim oblikom IO, drugima (vršnjacima, osoblju škole i dr.) omogućava da lakše prepoznaju i dosledno odgovore na pojedine, nekada idiosinkratičke, komunikacione pokušaje te osobe. Jedna od korisnih strategija, koja može pomoći u stvaranju suportivnog okruženja, jeste prosleđivanje informacija iz komunikacionog profila osobe sa IO potencijalnim komunikacionim partnerima (Cascella & McNamara, 2005). Na taj način, korišćenje pojedinih oblika komunikacije, koje je ponekad rezultat intezivne obuke osoba sa teškom i dubokom IO, može postati mnogo efikasnije.…”

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Characteristics of communication in people with severe and profound intellectual disability

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Arsenić²,

Brojčin³

2015

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Persons with severe and profound intellectual disability (ID) have a wide range of difficulties. A number of difficulties, along with a delay in speech and language development, can greatly interfere with successful communication with others. For these individuals, the presence of potential communication partners does not always guarantee successful initiation and maintenance of communication. Therefore, factors that limit or enhance successful communication with others probably lie in characteristics of individuals with ID, but also in their environment. The goal of this article is to provide an insight into specific characteristics of communication in individuals with severe and profound ID. In relation to specific features of communication, we can notice that persons with severe and profound ID represent a heterogeneous population. While some reach the stage of symbolic communication, others remain at intentional (preverbal and non symbolic) or pre-intentional stage of communication, even in adulthood. It is necessary to provide natural interactive context with respect to different modalities of communication exchange so that they can functionally use their communication skills in everyday situations.

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“…Literatura upućuje na to da korišćenje pojedinih komunikacionih formi i ispoljavanje određenih funkcija komunikacije može biti problematično za osobe sa PSA. Kaskela i Maknamara (Cascella, 2005;Cascella & McNamara, 2005) određuju forme komunikacije kao načine na koje osoba komunicira, poput korišćenja gestova (npr. pokazivanja, posezanja), govora tela (npr.…”

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