Description: Verbal and visual reasoning are interrelated. These exercises "tease" out the integral parts and stimulate reasoning skills. Written in the best-selling format of the WALC series, these activities have: -simple, concise language -easy-to-read formats -application to a wide range of acquired cognitive-language disorders -consistent progression of complexity within and between tasks processes of reasoning The tasks are divided into verbal reasoning and visual reasoning. Verbal Reasoning Emotions and Personal Situations: reason and talk about emotions, self-concept, opinions, family interactions, friendship, and conversation skills Idioms and Proverbs: recognize when something is literal or abstract and look for different meanings in what is heard Categorization: name objects by category, provide categories and subcategories, add members to categories, and recognize categorization in the context of sentences Convergent Reasoning: differentiate facts and opinions; solve word puzzles, deduction puzzles, and acrostics; and answer logic questions Analogies: fill in missing parts to complete analogies Paragraph Comprehension: make accurate inferences about stories Visual Reasoning -Visual Analogies: complete picture and figural analogies of increasing complexity Visual Figure-Ground: locate figures and shapes within the whole and parts within a whole Visual Sequencing: identify visual changes and sequence items by those changes Visual Closure and Reasoning: identify missing and salient features, choose figures to complete an image, make visual inferences, and identify incongruities in pictures Drawing: higher level tasks for vocational purposes include drawing figures to scale and sketching floor plans

Series: WALC Workbook of Activities for Language and Cognition

Author: TOMLIN, Kathryn

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 2007

Grade: Age16up

Format: BOOK/CD