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01 Apr 2011 12:44 PM
Monarch Media Center
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Resource Type: Books
**HELP for language
Ages 8 through adult
From Linguisystems Website:
Goals
Improves abstract language processing by teaching skills in a hierarchy
Strengthens oral and written language skills
Clients learn to understand abstract or ambiguous language in their academic, home, and/or work environments
Well-organized format makes it easy to customize lessons using a client’s strengths as a basis for remediating
her weaknesses
Features
55 exercises over four language areas
Each activity includes IEP objective
Ready-to-use reproducible activities can be presented orally or as worksheets
Perfect for one-on-one and small group remediation as well as take-home practice
No-frills approach to language development and remediation
Tasks in each section and items within tasks are presented with a gradual increase in complexity
This new HELP systematically improves abstract language comprehension and expression. Clients will learn to:
-read between the lines
-draw conclusions from inadequate information
-discriminate among multiple meanings of words
-choose between literal and non-literal meanings
-extrapolate useful from irrelevant information
You begin by knowing your client’s strengths and interest areas. Then choose tasks that are relevant to his
functional communication needs. You can be confident in this hierarchy of tasks and items:
Answering and Asking Questions
Choose from 16 tasks to build responses to:
Who, What, When, Where, Which, Why, How, If, and True/False questions. The last task teaches question
formulation skills.
Describing Objects and Defining Words
Lazzari, Andrea M.
You chose from 15 tasks to train abstract language processing in the major areas of:
Object Function/Action, Attribute/Object Association, Action/Agent Statements, Exclusion,
Similarities/Differences, Classifying, Analogies, Descriptive Words, and Definitions
Reading and Listening
Choose the passages relevant to your client’s interests to:
Predict Content, Identify the Main Idea, Paraphrase, Draw Inferences, and Describe and Interpret Pictures
Applying Language Skills
Your client learns to apply improved reasoning skills to real-life communication situations with 18 tasks that help
to:
Formulate Statements, Interpret Subtleties, Differentiate Literal from Rhetorical Questions, Express Opinions,
Understand Figurative Language, Interpret Intonation, and Judge Quality of Information
HELP for Language will help you “hit the ground running” and your clients to become “top-notch” communicators!
Components: 180 pages, reproducible activities, IEP goals, answer key
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