Use narrativebased language intervention to help students increase their interactions with friends, family, and coworkers. 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... Read full description

Use narrativebased language intervention to help students increase their interactions with friends, family, and coworkers.

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 ageappropriate lessons. Each lesson consists of a fourpart 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 4book 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

Each book has 55 pages " 8.5 x 11 " spiral bound

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