Do-Watch-Listen-Say: Social and Communication Intervention for Children with Autism

This assessment and intervention guide features a state-of-the-art assessment tool along with hundreds of creative ideas to promote social and communication skills. Practical background information on perspectives of autism and guidelines for designing and implementing intervention plans round out this informative guide.

The chapter ?Social and Communication Skills for Children with Autism? contains a set of questionnaires and checklists that allow interventionists to obtain a detailed profile of a child?s abilities in more than 100 subskill areas and target specific skills for intervention. Each subskill on the assessment tool has a corresponding activity sheet which outlines intervention activities to enhance social reciprocity, imitation, solitary play, social play, group skills, and social communication.

Using the targeted activity sheets interventionists can build an individualized social and communication skills curriculum for each of their students with autism. The activities can be implemented at home or in school and are designed to be used according to a student?s particular needs. This book also contains easy-to-use data collection forms to help chart children?s progress as well as an extensive list of resources pertaining to children with autism, including books, music, toys, software, distributor addresses, web sites, and recommended reading.

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Written By: Quill, Ed. D, Kathleen Ann

430 pages