CDC Launches COVID-19 Resources for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Care Providers

• By: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• September 24th, 2021
• ASL, caregivers, communication, COVID-19, deafness, Fall 2021 Issue, news, resources, sign language, toolkit, vaccinations
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created unique challenges for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). To address them, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created a COVID-19 toolkit with communication resources explaining in plain language how people with IDD...

Enhancing Communication to Reduce Challenging Behaviors

• By: Todd Merritt, PhD, BCBA-D Jessica Basir, MS, BCBA Chelsea M. K. Hawley, MS The Arc Westchester
• September 23rd, 2021
• ASL, assessment, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, challenging behavior, communication, deafness, Fall 2021 Issue, functional behavior assessment, functional communication training, sign language, technology
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The most recent report from the CDC found the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to be one in 54 children in the US (Maenner et al., 2020). Because the diagnostic criteria for ASD includes persistent deficits in communication and deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors, many...