Joe E. Reichle

I am focused primarily on those with moderate and severe developmental disabilities and children with more severe Autism Spectrum Disorders. My research focuses on three related areas of interest. One area of interest emphases understanding the social purposes served by young children's behavior problems.  Much of my research in this area has focused on establishing communicative alternatives to challenging behavior. My work is theoretically grounded in behavioral principles.  A second research interest addresses validating instructional procedures to teach individuals with significant developmental disabilities to use augmentative communication systems. I am particularly interested in the use of the graphic communicative mode to supplement the vocal and verbal behavior produced by young children who have Autism Spectrum Disorders. Recent research projects have focused on the use of dynamic graphic symbol displays that use real scenes displays to house graphic symbols. My final area of interest focuses on establishing and evaluating school based technical assistance in the area of positive behavioral support. I am particularly interested in identifying strategies to build sustainable professional peer delivered technical assistance and the influence of this assistance on professional technical assistance recipient implementation changes and resulting child behavior change.

In addition to my research interests I co-edit a book series on Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Dr. David Beukelman.

Publications

1. Reichle, J., Drager, K., & Davis, C.  (2002). Using requests for assistance to obtain desired items and to gain release from non-preferred activities: Implications for assessment and intervention. Education and Treatment of Children, 25, 47-66.

2. Sigafoos, J., Drasgow, E., and Reichle, J., O’Reilly, M., Green, V., and Tait, K. (2004).  Teaching communicative rejecting to children with severe disabilities. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 13, 31-42. 

3. Harris, M., and Reichle, J. (2004).  The impact of aided language stimulation on symbol comprehension and production in nonverbal children with moderate cognitive disabilities.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 13, 155-167.

4. Johnston, S., Evans, J., and Reichle, M. (2004).  Supporting augmentative and alternative communication use by beginning communicators with severe disabilities.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 13, 20-30.

5. Reichle, J., & McComas, J. (2004). Conditional use of a request for assistance.  Disability and Rehabilitation, 26, 1255-1262.

6. Dropik, P., and Reichle, J. (in press) A comparison of two types of scanning. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology.

7. Reichle, J., Dropik, P., Alden-Anderson, B., and Haley, T. (in press). Teaching a Young Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Request Assistance. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology.