Description
Ages: 8-AdultGrades: 3-Adult
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 lessons have:
- goal-driven activities
- expansive content
- appeal to a broad age-range
- gradual increase in complexity within and between activities
- application to a wide range of developmental and acquired 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
167 pages 8.5 x 11, softcover 2004
