Description: Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing. Here are hundreds of ready-to-use, auditory and language processing activities for clients of all ages and abilities. Written in the best-selling format of the HELP series, these lessons are known for their: -high quality, timeless content -appeal to a broad age-range -application to a wide scope of developmental and acquired language disorders -goal-driven activities -gradual increase in complexity within and between activities Clients learn to: -discriminate auditory differences at sound, word, and sentence levels -process and comprehend a variety of verbal information -manipulate language and apply language-based concepts to new situations -recall progressively longer units of auditory information The activities develop auditory and language processing in four general areas: Auditory Discrimination -discriminate minimal pairs; sounds in words; word endings; and similar phonemes -identify and generate rhyming words -identify incorrect words in context Question Comprehension -can, do/does, if, and yes/no questions -quantity/comparison questions -some/all questions -true/false and always/sometimes/never statements -simple question response requirements to accommodate clients with deficits in verbal expression Association -if/then statements -situational associations -comparison of characteristics -detect nonsense in sentences -associate objects and functions analogies and word relationships Auditory Memory -recognize numbers and words in a pattern -recall facts in sentences -recall sequences of digits, words, and directions -recall information in paragraphs

Series: Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing

Author: LAZZARI, Andrea/PETERS, Patricia

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 1987

Format: SPI/REPRODUCIBLE

Reading Level: Non-G1.5

Interest Level: G1-A