Ages: 8-Adult
Grades: 3-Adult

Develop language flexibility and reasoning for everyday situations. Clients learn abstract language as it applies to functional skills like question-answering, question-asking, and descriptive language.

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

• goal-driven activities
• expansive 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

Clients learn to:

• read between the lines
• draw logical conclusions from inadequate information
• discriminate among multiple meanings of words
• choose between literal and non-literal meanings
• extrapolate useful from irrelevant information

The activities develop higher-level language in four areas:

• Answering and Asking Questions
  • what would happen if
  • what could
  • when do/does
  • how do/does
  • why don't/doesn't
  • if questions and true/false statements
• Describing Objects and Defining Words
  • object attributes, functions and actions
  • exclusion and negation
  • similarities, differences, and classifying
  • analogies
  • descriptive words
  • using context to determine word meanings
• Reading and Listening
  • predicting content
  • identify the main idea
  • paraphrase passages
  • draw inferences from stories
  • describe and interpret pictures
• Applying Language Skills
  • interpret subtle meanings
  • discriminate between literal and rhetorical questions
  • interpret idioms and proverbs
  • explain similes, metaphors, and oxymorons
  • understand intonation

167 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2004