Help individuals with complex communication needs and their families determine the most appropriate technologies. Planning communication strategies includes the varying needs of listeners, recognizing that communicating with family is usually easier and will require less assistance than communicating with casual acquaintances or strangers. Social Networks is grounded in the principles of functional goal-setting and person- centered planning. The Social Networks Manual helps practitioners guide the intervention process. The Social Networks Inventory Booklet is used to collect information about communication partners and currents modes of expression The Social Networks Video/DVD presents interviews with leading experts as well as consumers and shows how individuals with complex communication needs broaden their “social network” of friends, acquaintances and people in the community (store clerks for example.) The DVD includes expanded interviews. Manual, spiralbound, 50 pgs., 203; 10 inventory booklets. By Sarah Blackstone, Ph.D. and Mary Hunt-Berg, Ph.D. Video or DVD, 25 min., 2003. |