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Amy Parker
1/9/2017 8:20 AM
Over the past several weeks, I have been reflecting on siblings of people with multiple disabilities or those with complex communication needs. This interest is both professional and personal. Has anyone in the community included siblings as a part of family-based intervention? Your insights are welcome.
I've found a couple of syntheses of the literature on interventions for children with disabilities that involved siblings. One article was a recent publication of a former professor of mine, Dr. Devender Banda from Texas Tech University. Although I can't post the full article here, most libraries will provide free copies upon request.
Banda, D. R. (2015). A review of sibling interventions with children with autism. Education and Training of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 50, 303-315.
"Siblings may be one of the potential and powerful peer interventionists at home and in other community settings." (Banda, 2015 p. 313)
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I have a student in my classroom who has a brother who also is severely affected by autism. I appreciate you sharing this information. We discussed several key points in our classroom meeting on ways to improve communication with family and between the two brothers. Thank you.
Tina Rogers - 3/9/2017
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I would like to see more research and look up some activities or strategies that I can have siblings of students use at home. One student is highly motivated by her many siblings and having them model how to communicate with her device may increase her competency in communication.
dcosby - 1/25/2017
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I would like to see more research and look up some activities or strategies that I can have siblings of students use at home. One student is highly motivated by her many siblings and having them model how to communicate with her device may increase her competency in communication.
dcosby - 1/25/2017
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dcosby - 1/25/2017
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I can see a huge benefit to including siblings in the family-based intervention. Not only does it benefit the child with disabilities to include another person that may see/notice different ways they communicate. Many children naturally look up to their siblings or admire them in general and this may inspire the child to learn different ways to communicate from the sibling.
bschmitt@nsseo.org - 1/25/2017
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