Pro-ed Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing Help for Word Finding by Andrea M. Lazzari, Patricia M. Peters - 31614

Pro-ed Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing Help for Word Finding

Ages: 6-Adult
Grades: 1-Adult

Use six approaches to improve word finding: associations, themes, definitions, questions, parts of speech, and context. Hundreds of stimuli help clients recall a variety of words.

Written in the best-selling format of the Help series, these lessons have:

goal-driven activities
high quality, timeless 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
Stimulate word retrieval and rapid recall with lessons organized by these areas:
Automatic Associations - Recall words through familiar associations like rhymes, songs, and story titles; common foods, people, nouns, and verbs; name brands; abbreviations, geographical words; and similes, idioms, and proverbs.
Themes - Descriptive phrases help clients recall 24 words for each theme. The themes are everyday subjects like clothing, school, furniture, forest, and transportation.
Definitions - Retrieve a variety of words based on their brief definitions. Clients identify objects, actions, and situations; identify items by their word class; and supply opposites and synonyms.
Answering Questions - Answer wh- questions with word banks, without word banks, and in fill-in-the-blank formats.
Parts of Speech - Supply nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions using word banks and fill-in-the-blank formats.
Using Context - Practice word finding with common conversational statements, themes, inferences in sentences, common sayings, and survival words.

179 pages • 8.5 x 11 • softcover • ©1995