Description
Ages: 2-5
Grades: Toddler-K
Help your preschool child develop age-appropriate social language skills. This book is chock-full of functional, goal-directed activities and practical "know-how" in ten key areas of social language development.
This is a systematic program of goal-directed activities for preschool children with developmental delays and older children with severe to profound pragmatic deficits. These skill areas underpin social success:
- Social Referencing- eye referencing and joint attention
- Reciprocity- turn-taking in play and in communication
- Responding- following directions, reciprocating greetings, answering questions, and responding to comments
- Initiation- gaining attention of the listener and beginning an interaction
- Topicalization- topic maintenance, initiating a topic, and shifting topics
- Communicative Functions/Speech Acts- protesting, requesting, answering and asking questions, and making statements/comments
- Nonverbal Signaling- eye, voice, body, and space messages
- Cohesion- presupposition, eliminating redundancy, and communicative reference
- Comprehension Monitoring and Conversational Repair- inaccuracies in discourse, communication breakdowns, and conversational repair
- Discourse Modalities- descriptive, narrative, persuasive, and humorous discourse
There is a hierarchy of instructional objectives and corresponding activities for each skill area. The functional activities use:
- everyday objects and items
- environmental prompts
- reproducible therapy materials (cards, activities, social scripts, sequenced stories, visual organizers, etc.)
Each skill area has teaching helps:
- detailed explanations of the skills
- hallmarks and red flags in development
- prerequisite skills
- teaching and troubleshooting tips
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174 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2012