Description
Ages: 6-AdultGrades: 1-Adult
Thousands of SLPs use these books to help their clients develop the language skills needed for independence. Ready-to-use lessons target a variety of language processes that build language complexity and flexibility.
The HELP Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing books are widely-recognized 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
Each book targets four areas of language processing:
- HELP 1
- 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
- HELP 2
- use associations and categories to recall words
- discriminate question types
- answer questions
- use correct grammar
- HELP 3
- use concepts to describe, compare, and reason
- paraphrase sentences, common sayings, and paragraphs
- use language to identify and solve problems
- match expressive language to the social situation
- HELP 4
- define and describe objects in a variety of ways
- manipulate written sentences and write short paragraphs
- talk about elements of language
- understand humor, idioms, exaggerations, and other word plays
- HELP 5
- receive, organize, and relay information
- compare and contrast to develop conceptual frameworks
- use the language of measurements, quantity concepts, and time
- identify and express needs, opinions, and feelings
5-book set each book 181 pages 1987
