Use narrative-based language intervention to help clients increase their interactions with friends, family, and co-workers. These illustrated lessons are for teens and adults with developmental disabilities, autism, and/or English Language Learners.
The language lessons teach clients to generate narratives while focusing on listening, expression, vocabulary, grammar, and conversation skills. The materials use a strategy similar to the Teaching Tales model used with clients with autism (Blank, McKirdy, & Payne, 1997). This approach lets you target a variety of speech and language skills based on client need.
Each book has 25 age-appropriate lessons. Each lesson consists of a four-part picture sequence (i.e., a routine) and a corresponding page of language stimuli. Three levels of language stimuli allow you to easily adapt the lesson to your client’s needs:
- Beginner – two or three simple sentences per routine
- Intermediate – three or four sentences per routine, more complex grammar, and sequence words like first and next
- Advanced – four or five sentences per routine, more complex grammar, sequence words, and mental states such as thoughts, feelings, desires, and perceptions
Every lesson progresses in this sequence:
- activate prior knowledge
- listen to the story (routine)
- story (routine) comprehension questions
- retell the story (routine) with and without pictures
- extension task
Each book targets a specific area of daily living. The 4-book set consists of:
- Community – Understand and talk about routines at the bank, clothing store, coffee shop, pet store, video rental, and more
- Home – Understand and talk about routines such as cleaning the house, grooming, preparing meals, washing dishes, and more
- Leisure & Recreation – Understand and talk about sports, movie theatres, board games, music, and more
- Work – Understand and talk about job interviews, getting ready for work, various work settings, and more
Complete 4 Book set: each book 55 pages • 8.5 x 11, spiral
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