Semantic-Pragmatic Language Disorder

This resource pack is designed to fill the need for materials that provide a simple and practical framework to identify, treat and manage semantic-pragmatic disorder in children.

The pack has grown out of the authors\’ day-to-day experience of working with these children and their families, and the therapy ideas offered are a selection of the best activities that have proved effective in everyday use.

Contents:

• Introductory Manual Photocopiable Guide, Checklists and therapy ideas. Photocopiable Therapy Handouts
• An overview section places semantic-pragmatic disorder in its context, discusses its origins and identifies the characteristics of this disorder in comparison to autism and Asperger\’s Syndrome.
• Offers a separate section, the Questions and Answers booklet, as a photocopiable guide that can be handed to teachers and parents.
• Problems Solutions highlights the difficulties children and parents can encounter with this type of language disorder and offers some helpful strategies. 
• Developmental Checklists in four stages are included. Covering the years 0-2, 2-5, 6-8 and 9-16, therapy ideas for each stage can be cross-referenced to the checklists.
• Therapy ideas related to areas of difficulty detailed in the above four stages and therapy materials to supplement these ideas are included

[ISBN: 9780863883293; 152 Pages]

[Authors: Charlotte Firth & Katherine Venkatesh;  Age Suitability: 5 and Up]