Here is a comprehensive collection of lists, forms, and resources that you will use on a daily basis when working with children or adults with communication disorders. You also receive suggestions for integrating language development activities into the reading curriculum, suggestions for helping children apply what they know about language to the learning of reading, strategies for working with bilingual/multicultural populations, information about African American English, articulation and language differences, and more.
The Speech Language Pathologist's Intervention Resource includes lists such as the following:
Part 1 - Vocabulary
- Common word categories
- Nouns organised by category
- Descriptive words
- Basic concepts used in classroom instruction
- Adverbs
- Conjunctions
- Curriculum vocabulary
- Defining words
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Compound words
- Homophones
- Homographs
Part 2 - Everyday Phrases and Idiomatic Expressions
- Similes
- Common idiomatic expressions
- Idiom categories
- Phrasal verbs
Part 3 - Language Structure
- Prefixes
- Suffixes
- Regular past tense verbs
- Irregular past tense verbs
- Contractions
- Regular and irregular plurals
Part 4 - Sound Awareness and Production
- Phonemic awareness
- Developmental norms for phonemes and phonological processes
- Basic phonological processes
- Observational phonological process record
- Consonant word lists and word-initial contrasts
- Consonant cluster word contrasts
- Multisyllabic word production
- Difficult to pronounce words and phrases
- Phonograms
Part 5 - Language and the Curriculum
- Integrating language and literacy instruction
- Building functional communication skills
- Classroom checklist for pragmatic language skills
- Building listening comprehension
- Basis reading concepts checklist
- Words with simple spelling patterns
- Common nouns
- Survival words and phrases
- Sign language alphabet
Part 6 - Working with Culturally Diverse Student Populations
- Identifying bilingual students with communication disorders
- Identifying the language needs of bilingual students
- Distinguishing language differences from disorders
- Features of African American English
- Language differences resulting from the influence of Spanish.......AND MORE!