Publications on Augmentative Communication

• The first three papers examine the consequences of making a particular augmentative communication system (lexigrams) available to schoolage children and adolescents with mental retardation. For related work on the consequences of making a limited number of augmentative signs available to younger children, including some with mental retardation, go to Early Signs and Words.
• The last item is a book review that considers similar children, but without a focus on intervention.
• Talks are listed only if there is no corresponding published report.

Abrahamsen, A. A., Romski, M. A., & Sevcik, R. A. (1989). Concomitants of success in acquiring an augmentative communication system: Changes in attention, communication, and sociability. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 93, 475-496.

Abrahamsen, A. A., Romski, M. A., & Sevcik, R. A. (1989). Change and the causes of change. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 93, 506-520.

Abrahamsen, A. A. (1988, August). The conceptual foundations of symbol use in augmentative communication. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Abrahamsen, A. A. (1978). Review of G. Fenn, The development of syntax in a group of educationally subnormal children. Language in Society, 7(2), 290.