Teach Me Language A Language Manual for Children with Autism, Asperger's Syndrome and Related Developmental Disorders. This item is unavailable.Teach Me Language A Language Manual for Children with Autism, Asperger's Syndrome and Related Developmental Disorders

Teach Me Language was written because we saw the need for a book to provide specific language activities designed for children with autism, Asperger's syndrome, and other related pervasive developmental disorders. There are many books advocating one therapy method over another, as well as books chronicling a child's unexpected recovery from autism. A few of these books provide information on setting up therapy in the home; however, no books that we could find give hands-on, explicit instructions for working on the language needs specific to these children, despite that fact that delayed language is one of the most common and limiting symptoms of children with developmental disorders. This book is designed to do just that. Teach Me Language introduced exercises and drills that attack language weaknesses common to children with pervasive developmental disorders.Teach Me Language is designed to be used by parents, speech therapist and/or trainers as part of a therapy program where language difficulties are being addressed. There are several conditions that must be met in order for this book to be useful:The child must be a visual learner.Children who have autism or have autistic-like disorders (i.e. pervasive developmental delays [P.D.D.] or Asperger's syndrome) are almost always visual learners. By this we mean that they are able to assimilate information when it is presented to them visually as opposed to orally. The entire book is based on this principle.The child must be table ready and relatively compliantOne of the major challenges with this population of children is that often it is difficult to get the child to sit down at a table, even for a moment. For the parent who is beginning down the long road of therapy, letting the child table ready is step one. By table ready, we mean that the child is attentive and able to follow simple directions