Handbook of Exercises for Language Processing HELP for Word Finding

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Ages: 6-AdultGrades: 1-Adult

Use six approaches to improve word finding: associations, themes, definitions, questions, parts of speech, and context. Hundreds of stimuli help clients recall a variety of words.

Written in the best-selling format of the HELP series, these lessons have:

• goal-driven activities
• high quality, timeless content
• appeal to a broad age-range
• gradual increase in complexity within and between activities
• application to a wide range of developmental and acquired disorders

• Automatic Associations - Recall words through familiar associations like rhymes, songs, and story titles; common foods, people, nouns, and verbs; name brands; abbreviations, geographical words; and similes, idioms, and proverbs.
• Themes - Descriptive phrases help clients recall 24 words for each theme. The themes are everyday subjects like clothing, school, furniture, forest, and transportation.
• Definitions - Retrieve a variety of words based on their brief definitions. Clients identify objects, actions, and situations; identify items by their word class; and supply opposites and synonyms.
• Answering Questions - Answer wh- questions with word banks, without word banks, and in fill-in-the-blank formats.
• Parts of Speech - Supply nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions using word banks and fill-in-the-blank formats.
• Using Context - Practice word finding with common conversational statements, themes, inferences in sentences, common sayings, and survival words.

179 pages 8.5 x 11, softcover 1995