The engaging power of storytelling and reading aloud: from the book to the IN-book through the methodology of modeling

Abstract

The following work offers a reflection on the theme of storytelling and reading aloud and analyzes
the benefits that these potentially engaging experiences can bring about in child development.
Planning an Augmentative and Alternative Communication approach, which not only makes use
of traditional texts but also of IN-books and modeling for reading books in symbols, can represent
a very valid methodological-didactic strategy to prevent any linguistic, cognitive and emotional
deficiency in those children with complex communication needs, ensuring the reactivation of
functional communication interaction since their birth.