"For Parents and Professionals: Expressive Language Delay"

To purchase copies of "For Parents and Professionals: Expressive Language Delay", please contract Linguisystems at 800-776-4332 or online at www.linguisystems.com From assessment to remediation, this resource will help you identify activities that will motivate children with expressive language delay (ELD) to talk. Your young students will discover both the pleasure and the power of spoken language.

Benefits

• Provides standardized and nonstandardized assessment tests and strategies appropriate for the three categories of ELD:
  • Type 1 ELD: children who present with simple language delays
  • Type 2 ELD: children who present with language delays and deficits in other dimensions as well
  • Type 3 ELD: children with the greatest language disorder and present other challenges as well
• Learn assessment strategies that address language development, sensory processing, motor development, and social-emotional development
• Outlines a four-stage treatment process for the three categories of children with (ELD)
• Each of the stages are clearly described so you know how to approach each child:
  • Stage 1. Establishing rapport and facilitating interaction
  • Stage 2. Producing single words through play and practice
  • Stage 3. Sequencing words into phrases and simple sentences
  • Stage 4. Introducing more sophisticated and complex language patterns
• Provides the treatment activities for each treatment stage and each ELD type
• Includes how to identify the communicative intent of challenging behaviors and treatment activities to teach alternative, socially-acceptable behaviors
• Provides case examples that illustrate therapy techniques and assessment results
• Each of the 48 therapy activities include the skill, expected response, materials list, and detailed procedures or scripts to follow. In addition, there are additional, specific techniques to use if your student is not responding or to enhance the learning experience for your student

Features

• Includes reproducible forms, checklists, extensive vocabulary lists, inventories, and sequence pictures
• Glossary of terms, resource and reference lists

Using this resource will seem as though you’re sharing wonderful, effective, and fun therapy ideas with a colleague. You’ll learn the definitions of ELD followed-up with actual case examples that clarify the concepts. Each chapter provides creative ways to reach a perplexing child on your caseload. Enjoy The Source for Expressive Language Delay – you’ll learn and quickly implement the best therapy activities.

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Components
188 pages, reproducible forms and pictures, glossary, resource and reference lists