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May is Better Speech and Hearing Month
Joining In: A Program for Teaching Skills DVD
Robert Naseef and Tony Attwood
In this DVD set, typical peers, model target behavior for elementary-age children. Set includes lesson plan book, follow-up activities and visual aids, for a truly ready-to-use program. Volume 1: Conversational Skills : Asking someone to play, socializing during snack, avoiding conversational mistakes, ending conversations politely, and answering hard questions. Volume 2: School Skills : Controlling voice levels, paying attention, getting attention the right way, understanding personal space, coping with stress and change, and sharing friends. Volume 3: Interpersonal Skills : Using good manners, making eye contact and avoiding staring, asking personal questions and respecting privacy, choosing kind words, and coping with meanness or bullying.
Thinking About You Thinking About Me
Michelle Garcia Winner
Perspective Taking is crucial to the development of advanced social thinking and related skills. In her newest book, Thinking About You Thinking About Me, Michelle explores how perspective taking impacts students' abilities to socially related as well as comprehend academic assignments that are laden with social themes such as comprehension of literature and working with peers in group assignments.
By sticking to the practical approach she revealed in her first book, Inside Out: What Makes Persons With Social Cognitive Deficits Tick? (Winner, 2000), Michelle provides information for parents and educators who are working with these children on a day-to-day basis. Within this book the reader will find a review of social cognition and related theories. Perspective taking is defined and its impact on students of varying functioning levels is discussed.
Pivotal Response Treatments for Autism
Robert Koegel and Lynn Koegel
An innovative, state-of-the-art treatment for autism, Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) uses natural learning opportunities to target and modify key behaviors in young children with autism, leading to widespread positive effects on communication, behavior, and social skills. The product of 20 years of research from Robert L and Lynn Kern Koegel - co-founders of the renowned research and training center on autism at the University of California, Santa Barbara - this proven approach is clearly presented in this single accessible volume.
Keeping parents involved in every aspect of intervention, educators and therapists can use these research-supported PRT strategies to improve children's academic performance' advance children's communication and language skills; foster social interactions and friendships with typically developing peers; reduce disruptive behaviors; aid early identification and intervention; and reduce ritualistic behaviors and broaden children's interests. Because PRT works with each child's natural motivations and stresses functional communication over rote learning, this comprehensive model helps children develop skills they can really use.
With this timely resource, educators, therapists, and parents can support children with autism as they enjoy more positive interactions, more effective communication, and higher academic achievement in natural, inclusive settings.
Enhancing Everyday Communication
Jeff Sigafoos
Practical and concise, this introductory guide is filled with real-world tips and strategies for anyone working to improve the communication of children with moderate, severe, and multiple disabilities. Emphasizing the link between behavior and communication, three respected researchers transform up-to-date research and proven best practices into instructional procedures and interventions ready for use at home or in school.
Assessment: Children’s Communication Checklist 2 (CCC-2)
Pearson Assessments
The CCC-2 is the latest version of a checklist that has been in development for 10 years. The 70-item questionnaire completed by a caregiver screens for communication problems in children aged 4 to 16 years. It can be hand or electronically scored. The CCC-2 can be used to:
- Screen for children who are likely to have language impairment
- Identify pragmatic impairment in children with communication problems
- Assist in identifying children who may merit from further assessment for an autistic spectrum disorder.
Professional credentials required for borrowing this assessment are:
- Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
- Educational Diagnostician
Device: SoundPod
FRS Communications
The SoundPOD is a solution for AAC users who use touch access but also have limited hand/finger dexterity. Having been designed with these users in mind, all of the interactions with the system could be done single-handed and with limited dexterity. There aren't any clips, attachments, or buttons that require fine motor skills; the entire system is accessible.
By generating voice output in a more natural location, the concealable SoundPOD™ speaker, combined with the iPod Touch, eliminates the negative attention associated with using an AAC device. This concept focuses the listener's attention on what you are saying, instead of the device.
