Description: Help clients meet their goals for mid- to high-level complexity word retrieval. This book offers plenty of strategies and repetition to meet diverse client needs. These ready-to-use activities tap into many facets of cognitive-linguistic processing that contribute to word retrieval: - vocabulary - reasoning - problem solving - deduction - convergent thinking - divergent thinking - thought flexibility - logic - general knowledge - creativity The activities are organized into five skill areas: -Answering Questions—general information questions require short-answer responses -Building Categorization Skills—name items by category and add items to a category -Using Word Relationships—work with opposites, synonyms, and homonyms Using Word Strategies—variety of approaches to stimulate word retrieval: use word puzzles, chaining, letter and syllable cues, definitions, and rhymes. -Naming and Selecting Pictures—name pictures and select pictures by the letter they begin with

Series: WALC Workbook of Activities for Language and Cognition

Author: Tomlin, Kathryn

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 2007

Grade: age16up

Format: WORKBOOK

Target: adult; SLP;

Keywords: vocabulary; cognitive rehabilitation; language rehabilitation; aphasia;