Assistive Technology Solutions in Minutes
by Therese Willkomm, Ph.D.

A "Must Have" book for everyone and anyone who wants to learn low cost assistive technology (A.T.) solutions that can be constructed in five minutes or less. This book is filled with over 600 color photographs of innovative fabrication techniques for construction A.T. solutions for home, school, work and play. Dr. Willkomm shares her experience with over 50 basic tools and materials used in quick solution development and rapid prototyping. The focus of this publication is to make a difference today!

ATSM...........$40.00

Educators need to know how to facilitate good communication with all students, whatever their disability. In this easy-to-read text, teachers will find the strategies for assessing communication skills, assist students with peer interaction in typical settings and across the age span, and acquire intervention techniques to promote alternative forms of communication. Designed specifically for the inclusive classroom, these ideas work because they come from those who know: teachers, speech-language pathologists, parents, teaching assistants and students. This second edition offers new material on the connection between literacy skills and general communication skills, students with disabilities working among students without disabilities, communication in strengthening social relationships and communicative rights of individuals with severe disabilities. (252 pages)

TCSB..........$45.00

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Teaching Communication Skills to Students with Severe Disabilities, Second Edition
by June E. Downing, Ph.D., with invited contributors

Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Adults with Acquired Neurological Disorders
by David R. Beukelman, Ph.D., Kathryn Yorkston, Ph.D., and Joe Reichle, Ph.D.

Exemplary Practices for Beginning Communicators
by Joe Reichle, Ph.D., David R. Beukelman, Ph.D., and Janice Light, Ph.D.

Communicative Competence for Individuals Who Use AAC:
From Research to Effective Practice
Edited by Janice Light, Ph.D., David R. Beukelman, Ph.D., and Joe Reichle, Ph.D.

This comprehensive text shows professionals how AAC can establish beginning communication skills among individuals who experience significant communication challenges. Readers will get thoughtful explorations of factors that influence beginning AAC communicators, a detailed overview of interventions that help individuals develop crucial communicative behaviors, guidelines for selecting an AAC system that best matches an individual's needs, and examples that bring life to issues addressed in each chapter. (491 pages)

EPBC............$45.00

Relevant for children and adults at all stages of communication development, this in-depth resource is required reading for everyone working with individuals who use AAC. The book presents current research and theory and guides readers through four skill areas important to the development of communicative competence: linguistic competence, operational competence, social competence and strategic competence. Two concluding chapters reveal how to improve the communicative competence of individuals who use AAC through effective intervention strategies and how to ensure that the strategies are working through outcome measurement. (520 pages)

CCIB............$50.00

Recipes for Success Remixed is Adaptivation's latest resource guide that includes new and revised assistive technology activities that promote independence for inclusion for adults, adolescents and children with disabilities. We took the best recipes from Recipes for Success Volumes 1, 2 and 3 and updated them with the most current assistive technology available. We also added new ideas and activities throughout the book. Each recipe gives a detailed list of materials needed, step-by-step instructions and numerous activity and equipment variations to help you adapt an activity to meet the needs of your client. This is a great book for individuals looking for literacy, phonemic awareness, vocational and/or daily living activities. These activities are fun and function and can be used for home, school, work and play. (Spiral binding, 250+ pages). Sample Recipes

RSR...............$60.00

This definitive textbook incorporates critical information on implementing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). It explains principles and procedures of AAC assessment and offers intervention techniques that are appropriate throughout the life span of children and adults with congenital or acquired communication disorders. This third edition offers new and expanded information on adults with degenerative language or cognition disorders, adults with acquired disabilities, capability assessment, terminology that reflects the recommendations of International Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) and examples that reflect the most recent AAC devices and interventions. (634 pages)

AACB..........$75.00

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Supporting Children and Adults with Complex Needs, Third Edition
by David R. Beukelman, Ph.D. & Pat Mirenda, Ph.D.

The loss of speech in adulthood due to acquired disabilities causes an enormous life change for the person it happens to and everyone close to them. In this book you'll explore the challenges these individuals face during the transition, whether gradual or immediate, from speaking to using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). You'll learn new ways to design individualized AAC systems that will rebuild their communicative confidence and encourage acceptance of their new lives and, for some, even before speech is lost. In Part One, readers will learn how to help AAC users face new challenges, such as establishing new communication roles and integrating their natural speech with AAC. In Part Two, they will get an in-depth look at AAC strategies and techniques for six frequently occurring neurological disorders: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington and Parkinson's diseases, traumatic brain injury, primary progressive aphasia and dementia. (425 pages)

AACN..........$45.00

(Please note that books are not returnable!)

Including Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities in
Typical Classrooms, Third Edition
by June E. Downing, Ph.D., with invited contributors

This book gives teachers all the latest research-based practical strategies for fully including students with sensory impairments and cognitive and physical disabilities. A helpful Q & A chapter gives teachers straight forward advice on addressing their most common challenges. This trusted guide and widely used textbook will help teachers maintain high expectations for students with severe and multiple disabilities and create successful inclusive classrooms where every child learns. (352 pages)

ISTC..........$47.00

Autism Spectrum Disorders and AAC
Edited by Pat Mirenda, Ph.D. & Teresa Iacono, Ph.D.

For children, adolescents and adults with Autism, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) can have a tremendous, positive impact on communication, social skills and behavior. Now there's a comprehensive, up-to-date research volume that shows professionals what today's most effective AAC methods are -- and why they are a perfect fit with a variety of learning approaches that work for people with Autism. Readers will get clarification of the common characteristics of effective AAC interventions and insight into the future research required to make AAC technologies more meaningful and motivating. (484 pages)

AAAC...........$50.00