Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Autism

A unique resource that focuses on the one issue pertinent to all individuals on the spectrum: communication. It addresses the needs of nonverbal and beginning communicators, plus children with high functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome. The book provides a PDF on CD with many valuable reproducibles, like reinforcement preference sheets and symbol recognition assessments.

Contents include:

• Assessments,
• teaching communication skills,
• motivation and communication,
• using cues and prompts,
• teaching verbal language,
• using AAC, combining methods,
• following directions,
• tone of voice and emphasis,
• echolalia,
• appropriate communication,
• conversation skills,
• developing social understanding, and
• teaching across environments.

A unique resource that focuses on the one issue pertinent to all individuals on the spectrum: communication.

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