Functional Conversation App Larry Irwin Kleiman

Description Ages: 9-AdultGrades: 4-Adult This app addresses the improvement of conversation skills for older students and adults who have a variety of disorders including autism, aphasia, social language, auditory processing, and expressive language. Your students will learn to engage in and create natural conversations through prompted conversation stimulation. Students make choices and have the freedom to select topics, responses, order of turns, and how long the conversation should last for each topic. Hundreds of conversation topics and prompts are included. Each can be inserted into a conversation as is or edited to reflect personal expression and preference. First the user chooses from three options to start the conversation: Talk About Me Ask Someone a Question Choose a Conversation Topic Additional choices show the student the logic of conversation and a list of options. For example, if a student chooses Talk About Me, he selects from options like these: Today, I... I'm