Understanding Language, Stimulating Communication
How do you help children to understand language and motivate them to communicate? This collection of books, games and flashcards are designed to help you help the children in your lives to understand and use language to communicate. It includes games and books that focus on homophones, antonyms, idioms and homonyms. Speech therapy tools. Reference books and guides; and story books for children.
Motivate to Communicate!
This practical resource is brimming with exciting ideas and guidance for motivating children with autism and other communication difficulties. It can just as easily be adapted to motivating a child to communicate through sign language; although the authors wrote it with oral communication in mind.
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An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions
"This is a truly inspirational book and teaching tool and a very successful dictionary for all. It should be on the bookshelves of every inclusive classroom, house and office. "Good Autism Practice
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What Did You Say? What Do You Mean?
Expressions that don´t literally mean what they say can be confusing for many children, but can be fun when they become familiar. Metaphors are particularly challenging for children with Asperger Syndrome (AS), because they tend to be literal thinkers. These cards can enable children to enjoy metaphorical language. Using metaphors can also help children with be more flexible and creative in the way they understand & use language.
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What Next Sequencing Cards
Whats Next? is a sequencing game that helps develops logical thinking, sequencing of events and recognising and reconstructing stories. This set is especially beneficial for children with autism, helping them understand sequencing of an event from beginning to end, and the order we do things in - we get out of bed, we brush our teeth, we have a bath, and we get dressed.
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What Next Sequencing Cards : Part 2
Whats Next? : Part 2 builds on skills acquired through Part 1. It is a sequencing game that helps develops logical thinking, sequencing of events and recognising and reconstructing stories. This set is especially beneficial for children with autism, helping them understand sequencing of an event from beginning to end, and the order we do things in - when the alarm goes off in the morning, we wake up and get out of bed, get dressed and we are ready for the day.
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Speak, Move, Play and Learn with Children on the Autism Spectrum
This clear and easy to follow, practical resource is packed full of ideas, guidance and activities to boost communication skills, Sensory intergration and coordination using simple ideas from speech and language pathology and occupational therapy. In addition there are gluten free and dairy free alternative recipies for many everyday pay tools and foods.
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Homophones (Sound alike words)
This kit is a fantastic tool for every child trying to learn and come to grasp with the English language. Homophones (like Dear and Deer or son and Sun) are very difficult for children to remember. This kit helps pictorialise these words and relate the different spelling to their objects/context. AN EXCELLENT TEACHING TOOL!Each card pair uniquely joins, so the wrong items can not be joined.
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Antonyms (Opposite words)
Like the Homophone and Homonyms sets, this sister product helps children understand OPPOSITES, each clearly illustrated and uniquely cut so that only correct pairs can be joined.
Opposites like Hot and Cold, or First and Last are intrinsic to the junior curriculum and this kit has proven extremely useful to children, helping children to visualise the opposite and associate the event/item/adjective to its word.
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Homonyms (one word many meanings)
Homonyms are one of the most difficult concepts for children (especially hearing impaired children) to grasp. How cam the word PALM mean my hand and a tree? This great kit will help children become familiar with homonyms in a fun and captivating way.
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Building A Sentence 2 : Parts of Speech Match Up
This wonderful resource helps children build sentences and begin to understand English grammar and identify parts of speech - including nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
A great tool to help develop language skills.
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Building A Sentence 3 : The complete sentence construction pack
This incredible kit includes 360 double sided word cards and 2 sentence boards.
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Bookworm : Discovers Idioms, Sayings and Expressions
This paperback book sells like hot cakes!. If you understood what that means then you just interpreted an idiom; a concept very difficult for children with Autism and Aspergers. This the third book in the series; introduces young readers to the world of idioms.
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Hermans Hiding Place : Discovering Up, In, Under and Behind
This hardback book teaches the concepts behind prepositions. Brett and his dog Herman play hide-and-seek, and Brett is IT. Young readers will learn the meaning and uses of the prepositions up, in, under and behind as they follow Brett on his search for Herman.
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Who took my shoe? : Discovering Who. What, Where, When, Why and How
Brett and his dog Herman search for Bretts missing shoe, while subtly teaching the concepts of who, what, where, why and how. This book will entertain and teach children in a delightful way.
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