Calendar
Directory
Maps and Directions
Promoting communication outcomes for children with deaf-blindness through adaptive Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (PMT) strategies
This is a completed project.
This project is using a modified Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (PMT) intervention technique to improve communication by children who are deaf-blind. In PMT, children learn to communicate with nonsymbolic vocalizations and gestures such as touching, point or reaching toward objects. The adapted PMT strategies will be implemented with at least 21 children who are deaf-blind, with each child receiving six months of intensive one-on-one teaching for one hour a day, four days a week. All children will be followed longitudinally and outcome data for children ages 3-12 will be available by the project’s end.
Project Administration
Nancy Brady, principal investigator
Susan M. Bashinski, co-investigator
Project Contact
Nancy Brady, Ph.D.
3008 Dole Human Development Center
1000 Sunnyside Avenue
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-7555
nbrady@ku.edu
785-864-0762 (phone)
785-864-5323 (fax)
This is a project of:
Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (KIDDRC)
Related Projects
See the website of the principal investigator
Funded by:
U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Publications and Presentations
Brady, N. (2006, November). Teaching Communicative Gestures to Young Children Who have Deaf-Blindness. Presented at the annual convention of the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Miami, FL.
Brady, N. (2006, July). Research with deaf-blind children. Presented to the National Conference on Educating Students with Deaf-Blindness, Greensboro, N.C.
Brady, N. and Bashinski, S. (2007, November). Increased Communication in Deaf-Blind Children After Adapted PMT Intervention. Research display at the annual convention of the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Boston, MA.
Send corrections/comments/questions to lifespan@ku.edu
