Teaching Communication Skills: Autism

A comprehensive overview of methods and strategies for developing functional communication in children and adolescents with autism. Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Autism addresses the needs of nonverbal and beginning communicators, plus children with high functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome. The book provides a PDF on the CD with many valuable reproducibles, like reinforcement preference sheets and symbol recognition assessments.

A unique resource that focuses on the one issue pertinent to all individuals on the spectrum—communication.

DETAILS

Contents include: Assessments, teaching communication skills, motivation and communication, using cues and prompts, teaching verbal language, using AAC, combining methods, following directions, tone of voice and emphasis, echolalia, appropriate communication, conversation skills, developing social understanding, and teaching across environments.

By Pat Crissey, an autism consultant and author of Picture Directions and Getting the Message. Softbound book, 236 pages, 2009.

Available as a printed book or as an Attainment eBook download! See the eBook tab above.

eBOOK

Teaching Communication Skills: Autism is available for reading on your iPad. Purchase and download the eBook edition directly to the iBooks* shelf on your iPad, or buy multiple downloads and send an access code to your students or teachers. Attainment eBook prices are discounted for 5 or more users (see chart above).

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PDF Curriculum Resources

Forms and worksheets for the IEP assessment process are available as a download from the Attainment Bookshelf. The PDF supplement is free for viewing, sharing, or printing.

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