Functional Routines for Adolescents & Adults: 4-Book Set Beverly Plass

Description Ages: 12-22Grades: 7-Adult Use narrative-based language intervention to help clients increase their interactions with friends, family, and co-workers. These illustrated lessons are for teens and adults with developmental disabilities, autism, and/or English Language Learners. The language lessons teach clients to generate narratives while focusing on listening, expression, vocabulary, grammar, and conversation skills. The materials use a strategy similar to the Teaching Tales model used with clients with autism (Blank, McKirdy, & Payne, 1997). This approach lets you target a variety of speech and language skills based on client need. Each book has 25 age-appropriate lessons. Each lesson consists of a four-part picture sequence (i.e., a routine) and a corresponding page of language stimuli. Three levels of language stimuli allow you to easily adapt the lesson to your client's needs: Beginner - two or three simple sentences per routine Intermediate - three or four sen