A Step-by-Step Guide to Telling Children and Young People on the Autism Spectrum about Their Diagnosis
Based on direct work with over 250 individual children, Andrew Miller wrote this book in order to provide parents and professionals with information, tools and guidance to help introduce children to autism in the absence of specialist support. This in-depth guide describes the practicalities of disclosure, including when to tell, who should ......
An Early Literacy Intervention for Improving Oral Language
This book is your user-friendly guide to implementing Story Friends&;, a fun and engaging language intervention program for 4- to 6-year-old children at risk for later reading difficulty. You'll get: An accessible, concise overview of the program and its many benefits, A look at the research behind Story Friends, Complete guidance on setting up ......
This is an instructional program that assesses the functional needs of young children, ages 3 to 5, with autism in inclusive classrooms and provides intervention programming to increase these children's developmental progress.
For use with the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills (R) (TILLS (R)) Examiner's Kit, the Technical Manual is your essential guide to the development of and data behind TILLS. It includes vital information on: test development and standardization validity and reliability of TILLS control for bias names and locations of test ......
Filling an important need for K-12 educators, this highly practical book provides a step-by-step guide to cognitive strategy instruction, one of the most effective instructional techniques for struggling learners. The authors present well-validated strategies that target self-regulated learning and study skills as well as performance in specific ......
When you're working with preverbal children on the autism spectrum, you need a complete toolbox of highly effective strategies to expand their communication skills. Add Rapid Motor Imitation Antecedent Training (RMIA), and you'll have one of the most promising interventions for helping young children say their first words.
This valuable resource for people working with adults with learning disabilities provides over 60 sessions of fun and engaging activities that aim to entertain and stimulate the minds of people with learning disabilities.The sessions are divided into different types of activity including cookery, arts and crafts, drama and dance, and outside ......
What do we know about the development of language, and what research will improve diagnosis of disorders and ensure effective intervention? Explore the answers in this in-depth study of language, both typical and atypical language development, and the evolutionary, biological, sociocultural, and cognitive factors that affect literacy acquisition.
Interprofessional Collaboration for Autism Support Teams
Provides speech-language pathologists with an integrated view of how the framework and strategies of applied behaviour analysis can be used to support the communication needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
