Students with communication disabilities struggle to engage with others because they aren't understood, can't communicate their wants and needs, and/or make comments. They are often not motivated to try. The students I work with in the junior high setting range from being non-verbal, minimally verbal, or verbal with vocabulary, grammar, and social language difficulties. Having engaging materials that are fun and exciting makes all the difference. This means having materials that exist outside the realm of worksheets and task folders. Multisensory approaches to communication (what you can see, hear, touch, smell, etc.) encourage more words and more successful interactions with peers and adults in the school setting.
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Students with communication disabilities struggle to engage with others because they aren't understood, can't communicate their wants and needs, and/or make comments. They are often not motivated to try. The students I work with in the junior high setting range from being non-verbal, minimally verbal, or verbal with vocabulary, grammar, and social language difficulties. Having engaging materials that are fun and exciting makes all the difference. This means having materials that exist outside the realm of worksheets and task folders. Multisensory approaches to communication (what you can see, hear, touch, smell, etc.) encourage more words and more successful interactions with peers and adults in the school setting.