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FUNCTIONAL LIVING SKILLS
Focus on Function
Gaining Essential Communication Skills
Second Edition
Evelyn R. Klein • Shelly E. Hahn
Focus on Function–Second Edition is a
compendium of functional communication
activities developed for the individual
with mild to moderate defi cits in reading,
writing, listening, and speaking that impact
daily life. You will also fi nd it to be an important
tool for your adolescent and adult
students who speak English as a second
language or have learning differences, and
others needing to strengthen communicative
activities of daily living. The primary
purpose of Focus on Function–Second
Edition is to foster independence.
Each activity is categorized according to guidelines established by the
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) Functional Communication
Measures (FCMs), the American Occupational Therapy Association’s
(AOTA) skills categories, and the World Health Organization’s (WHO)
International Classifi cation of Functioning, Disability, and Health Codes.
The activities are organized into the following areas:
» Basic Communication, including expressing ideas and starting conversations
» Using the Phone, including making appointments and taking messages
» Managing and Understanding Time, including designing a schedule and using a
calendar
» Managing and Understanding Finances, including check writing and using an ATM
» Shopping, including working with money and using coupons
» Meals and Cooking, including planning menus, writing shopping lists, and cooking
» Getting Around, including reading and understanding signs, symbols, and maps
» Activities Around the House, including ordering, reading directions, and writing
letters
» Social Participation, including social exchanges and discussing feelings and
emotions
» Leisure Activities, including using the Internet and communicating via email
» Work Related Tasks, including resumé writing and completing applications
The manual provides reproducible workbook pages and tasks, such as
checks, application forms, calendars, maps, TV logs, recipes, restaurant
menus and checks, monthly bills, catalog pages, and photos.
297 pages, 2007, spiral-bound softcover
MR #049450 Focus on Function $ 76.95
One-to-One Training
Instructional Procedures for Learners
with Developmental Disabilities
Pieter Duker • Robert Didden • Jeff Sigafoos
This useful book focuses on how to teach adaptive
skills to individuals with developmental disabilities.
You’ll also learn how to manage problem
behaviors that often occur during adaptive skill
training. This book is ideal for special education
teachers and behavioral specialists, and for use
in graduate and undergraduate special education
classes. One-to-One Training presents straightforward,
easy-to-implement procedures that
lessen the severity of the disability’s impact on daily functioning.
The one-to-one training format, also referred to as discrete-trial training, is
a structured approach involving a learner and a trainer. Using this format,
the trainer creates an opportunity for the learner to make a response to
the trainer’s stimulus. The trainer then ensures that a correct response is
obtained from the learner and provides reinforcement for correct responses.
The one-to-one training format refl ects advances that have been made in
instructional procedures since behavioral principles were fi rst applied to education.
This groundbreaking book examines these advances and establishes
discrete-trial training as the preferred method of adaptive skill instruction.
186 pages, 2004, softcover
MR #032428 One-to-One Training $ 42.95
A Functional Assessment & Curriculum
for Teaching Students with Disabilities
Volumes I through IV
Now substantially revised and available in four volumes, this fourth edition
is intended as a guide for educators, special education teachers, school
administrators, counselors, and other professionals involved in rehabilitation
services for individuals with disabilities. New to this edition is the instrument
Assessing and Monitoring Progress of Functional Skills (AMPFS),
which helps teachers target skills for instruction and measure progress
toward skill mastery.
VOLUME I: Self-Care, Motor Skills, Household Management,
and Living Skills, Fourth Edition
Michael Bender • Peter J. Valletutti • Carol Ann Baglin
Unit 1: Self-Care Skills
Unit 2: Gross Motor Skills
Unit 3: Fine Motor Skills
Unit 4: Household Management and Living Skills
VOLUME II: Nonverbal Communication, Oral Communication,
and Literacy Preparation, Fourth Edition
Peter J. Valletutti • Michael Bender • Audrey Smith Hoffnung • Carol Ann Baglin
Unit 1: Nonverbal Communication
Unit 2: Oral Communication
Unit 3: Literacy Preparation
VOLUME III: Functional Academics, Third Edition
Peter J. Valletutti • Michael Bender • Carol Ann Baglin
Unit 1: Functional Reading
Unit 2: Functional Writing
Unit 3: Functional Mathematics
VOLUME IV: Interpersonal, Competitive Job-Finding, and
Leisure-Time Skills, Second Edition
Michael Bender • Peter J. Valletutti • Carol Ann Baglin
Unit 1: Interpersonal Skills
Unit 2: Competitive Job-Finding Skills
Unit 3: Leisure-Time Skills
All units within each volume comprise specifi c goals, objectives, related
references, suggested readings, and selected materials/resources.
TARGET GROUP: Infancy through Young Adult. (2008)
MR #049362 Complete Series of 4 $ 177.95
MR #049363 Volume I 53.95
MR #049364 Volume II 53.95
MR #049365 Volume III 53.95
MR #049366 Volume IV 53.95
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