Description: 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

Author: Tina Veale

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 2012

Grade: Age 2 - 5

Format: SOFTCOVER/CD-PDF

Target: early years;

Keywords: therapy;