Pro-ed Preschool Social Language Therapy by Tina K. Veale - 31673

Pro-ed Preschool Social Language Therapy

Ages: 2-5
Grades: Toddler-K

Help your preschool child develop age-appropriate social language skills. This book is chock-full of functional, goal-directed activities and practical "know-how" in ten key areas of social language development.

This is a systematic program of goal-directed activities for preschool children with developmental delays and older children with severe to profound pragmatic deficits. These skill areas underpin social success:

Social Referencing- eye referencing and joint attention
Reciprocity- turn-taking in play and in communication
Responding- following directions, reciprocating greetings, answering questions, and responding to comments
Initiation- gaining attention of the listener and beginning an interaction
Topicalization- topic maintenance, initiating a topic, and shifting topics
Communicative Functions/Speech Acts- protesting, requesting, answering and asking questions, and making statements/comments
Nonverbal Signaling- eye, voice, body, and space messages
Cohesion- presupposition, eliminating redundancy, and communicative reference
Comprehension Monitoring and Conversational Repair- inaccuracies in discourse, communication breakdowns, and conversational repair
Discourse Modalities- descriptive, narrative, persuasive, and humorous discourse

There is a hierarchy of instructional objectives and corresponding activities for each skill area. The functional activities use:

everyday objects and items
environmental prompts
reproducible therapy materials (cards, activities, social scripts, sequenced stories, visual organizers, etc.)

Each skill area has teaching helps:

detailed explanations of the skills
hallmarks and red flags in development
prerequisite skills
teaching and troubleshooting tips

174 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2012