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Holli Decker
Ohio County Schools, holli.decker@ohio.kyschools.us
Nancy Steele
Educational Consultant, nancy.k.steele@gmail.com
Communication and literacy: What does that look like for students with
complex disabilities, including multiple disabilities, intellectual disabilities,
deafblindness, or autism? Students with complex disabilities are often overlooked
as candidates for literacy instruction. The Communication Matrix Intervention
Modules (CMIM) provide explicit instruction on ways to incorporate literacy and
communication instruction into daily interactions for students with low-incidence
disabilities.
The Communication Matrix
The Communication Matrix (CM) was created by Dr. Charity Rowland as a
tool to evaluate the earliest levels of expressive communication behaviors in
Bridging the Gap Between Communication and
Literacy for Students with Low Incidence
Disabilities Using the Communication Matrix
Intervention Modules
