More Language and Learning Exercises For Children with Autism Or Other Developmental Delays
You'll find over 85 pages of Language and Learning Exercises for you to use with your child or student with Autism or other developmental delays. You'll also find: Introduction to ABA, teaching strategies and tips and instructions on how to use this book. Book Sections- Section One: Matching Identical Pictures - Matching is a valuable skill that can be used to establish or improve instructional control. Since so many children with Autism or other developmental delays have a difficult time learning to focus on the words used by others, they sometimes find it easier to be taught to attend to and match visual stimuli. Section Two: Continuing Sequence Patterns - Understanding sequences helps children develop problem solving abilities. For example, we learn to follow directions in a sequence. Our own thought patterns are connected to the ability to sequence events. In this section, you will be able to introduce your child or student to different types of patterns designed to develop perception of shapes and pictures in a sequence. These drills will introduce your learner to patterns and sequences while establishing the foundation needed in order to transfer these skills to everyday situations. Section Three: Attributes - All objects have properties or attributes that distinguish them from other objects. Learning to discriminate and identify these attributes helps to foster oral communication. In this section, your learner will be asked to make sense of the shapes and pictures. He or she may be asked to identify a picture based on its color, shape, design, spatial relationship, features, or other attributes. Section Four: What Does Not Belong? Using the skills learned in section three, your learner will begin to use discrimination and picture association to identify what picture is 'out of place' in pictures presented to him or her. In this section, your child or student will be asked to decide what picture doesn't belong based on associations or categories. Section Five: Yes / No Exercises- In this section, you simply want to help foster communication with your child on the simplest level. If your child is able to answer yes or no to questions, that's terrific! Use this section to maintain those skills. If your child is not able to functionally use yes or no to communicate his or her wants or needs, here's a place to start. These drills are designed to simply introduce your child to the meaning behind yes and no. You may need to model each response several times for your learner to catch on. You'll then be able to ask questions about preferred and non-preferred items. Being able to answer yes or no to questions is a huge accomplishment indeed. These drills will help your child get on the right track to being able to tell you what he or she desires. Section Six: Letters and Their Sounds - This section will help teach the relationships between the letters of written language and the individual sounds of spoken language. These drills will set the foundation for phonics instruction. It's here that we begin to teach children to use these relationships to read and write words. Knowing these relationships will help children recognize familiar words and decipher new words. Section Seven: Word to Picture Matching - In this section, you want to help your learner begin to sound out the words and then match the correct word to the corresponding picture. This is great practice for beginning readers. Section Eight: Labeling Features - The ability to label objects or features of objects is a major cornerstone of language development. In this section, your learner will be asked to identify body parts or attributes of different objects. You can start out requiring only receptive labeling and then move on to expressive labeling.