Catherine Delamain, Jill Spring
Achieving Speech & Language Targets is a practical resource book for special education teachers, mainstream classroom teachers, teaching assistants and speech & language therapists who are working with children who have significant language delay and who are in their first year at school.
Checklists provide professionals with a shared reference from which both broad special needs areas and specific speech and language targets can be identified. The authors emphasise the crucial role of play in language development and the book offers more than 200 games and activities to help children achieve their targets for each stage using a simple, structured layout.
The book offers:
This is an essential tool for busy teaching staff. Many of the activities can take place in the context of the everyday curriculum and include a range of play opportunities designed to make learning interesting and dynamic. Almost all activities can be carried out using equipment that is readily available in early years' classrooms.
Introduction
How to use this book
Activities for understanding language
Activities for using language
Discriminating, making and using speech sounds
Resources
"This is another very useful title from the same authors that have produced 'Developing Baseline Communication Skills" Speaking Listening & Understanding, and 'Understanding & Using Spoken Language'"
- Catherine de la Bedoyer, Consultant Speech & Language Therapist, NAPLIC Newsletter