Description: Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing. Develop language flexibility and reasoning for everyday situations. Clients learn abstract language as it applies to functional skills like question-answering, question-asking, and descriptive language. Written in the best-selling format of the HELP series, these language lessons are known for their: -expansive content -appeal to a broad age-range -goal-driven activities -gradual increase in complexity within and between activities -application to a wide range of developmental and acquired language processing disorders Clients learn to: -read between the lines -draw logical conclusions from inadequate information -discriminate among multiple meanings of words -choose between literal and non-literal meanings -extrapolate useful from irrelevant information The activities develop higher-level language in four areas: Answering and Asking Questions -what would happen if -what could -when do/does -how do/does -why don't/doesn't -if questions and true/false statements Describing Objects and Defining Words -object attributes, functions and actions -exclusion and negation -similarities, differences, and classifying -analogies -descriptive words -using context to determine word meanings Reading and Listening -predicting content -identify the main idea -paraphrase passages -draw inferences from stories -describe and interpret pictures Applying Language Skills -interpret subtle meanings -discriminate between literal and rhetorical questions -interpret idioms and proverbs -explain similes, metaphors, and oxymorons -understand intonation

Series: Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing

Author: LAZZARI, Andrea

Publisher: Linguisystems

Grade: A8-A

Format: SOFTCOVER

Components: 167pp