Description: Use a narrative therapy approach and familiar routines to teach speech and language skills to teens and adults with developmental disabilities, autism, and/or English as a second language. The language lessons teach clients how to generate narratives while focusing on listening, expression, vocabulary, grammar, and conversation skills. The materials use a strategy similar to the Teaching Tales model used with clients with autism (Blank, McKirdy, & Payne, 1997). This flexible approach lets you target a variety of speech and language skills based on client need. The book has 25 age-appropriate lessons about functional routines in the home including grooming, preparing meals, and cleaning. Each lesson consists of a four-part picture sequence (i.e., a routine) and a corresponding page of language stimuli. Three levels of language stimuli allow you to easily adapt the lesson to your client's needs: -Beginner—two or three simple sentences per routine -Intermediate—three or four sentences per routine, more complex grammar, and sequence words like first and next -Advanced—four or five sentences per routine, more complex grammar, sequence words, and mental states such as thoughts, feelings, desires, and perceptions Every lesson follows this sequence: -activate prior knowledge -listen to the story (routine) -story (routine) comprehension questions -retell the story (routine) with and without pictures -extension task

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 2008

Format: SOFTCOVER