Treatment Protocols for Language Disorders in Children, Vol. 2: Social Communication by M. N. Hegde

by M.N. Hedge

Contained here are protocols for teaching social communication skills to children who have mastered the basic morphologic skills. These relatively advanced social communication skills include the adjectives; comparatives and superlatives; adverbs; production of various kinds of requests; production of commands; comprehension of commands; production and comprehension of a variety of questions including what, why, when, where, who, how, which, yes, and no; production of negative sentences (negation) including is not/are not, I am not/I do not, I was not/I did not, constructions; passive sentences without and with the agent; topic Initiation; topic maintenance; turn taking; eye contact; conversational requests for clarification; conversational responding to requests for clarification. These protocols to teach social communication includes scripted scenarios that the clinician and patient can easily follow. Effective treatment can result from enacting the roles assigned according to these protocols. All target skill exemplars, detailed scripts, and recording sheets are provided on both the printed text and an accompanying CD. The forms on this CD are customizable and allow clinicians to modify forms to suit the client.

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First published November 1, 2005