Research

The NCDB Outcomes and Performance Indicators: Literacy

Literature review looking at emergent literacy and students with significant multiple disabilities or deafblindness

The NCDB Outcomes and Performance Indicators:  Literacy
By Lisa Jacobs, Barbara Purvis, Nancy Steele, and Ella Taylor. National Consortium on Deafblindness (May 2008)

This literature review demonstrates the importance of combining an emergent literacy focus with the five components of the National Reading Panel when working with students with severe/profound cognitive impairments and severe communication impairments.