Preschool Social Language Therapy Tina K. Veale

Description Ages: 2-5Grades: Toddler-K Help your preschool child develop age-appropriate social language skills. This book is chock-full of functional, goal-directed activities and practical "know-how" in ten key areas of social language development. This is a systematic program of goal-directed activities for preschool children with developmental delays and older children with severe to profound pragmatic deficits. These skill areas underpin social success: Social Referencing- eye referencing and joint attention Reciprocity- turn-taking in play and in communication Responding- following directions, reciprocating greetings, answering questions, and responding to comments Initiation- gaining attention of the listener and beginning an interaction Topicalization- topic maintenance, initiating a topic, and shifting topics Communicative Functions/Speech Acts- protesting, requesting, answering and asking questions, and making statements/comments Nonverbal Signaling- eye, voice, bod