Building Language Using LEGO® Bricks

A Practical Guide

Dawn Ralph, Jacqui Rochester (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2016
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78592-061-5 (ISBN)

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Harness the power of LEGO® bricks to promote essential skills in children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. This practical guide is full of information and tips on identifying areas of language need, how to implement and run interventions successfully, and how to measure progress.

Building Language using LEGO® Bricks is a flexible and powerful intervention tool designed to aid children with severe receptive and expressive language disorders, often related to autism and other special educational needs.

This practical manual equips you for setting up and adapting your own successful sessions. Downloadable resources enable you to chart progress in the following key areas:
- The use of receptive and expressive language
- The use and understanding of challenging concepts
- Joint attention
- Social communication

Help children with complex needs to communicate with this unique tool, derived from the highly effective LEGO®-Based Therapy.

Dawn Ralph gained her Speech Pathology & Therapy degree from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in 1985 and has worked as a paediatric speech and language therapist ever since. She has worked in a variety of settings from a paediatric brain injury unit to both specialist and mainstream schools. Jacqui Rochester has been working with SEN children for over sixteen years. In 2014 she gained her Bachelor of Philosophy in Special Education: Autism (Children) from the University of Birmingham's Autism Centre for Education and Research. Both Dawn and Jacqui run Building Language using LEGO® Bricks workshops for schools and training for professionals.

Acknowledgements. Foreword by Gina Gomez De La Cuesta. Preface. 1. What are Autism and Language Impairments?. 2. Building Language using LEGO® Bricks and LEGO® Therapy (LeGoff 2004). 3. Aims. 4. Why Building Language using LEGO® Bricks Works. 5. Starting Off. 6. Progressing Skills: The Role of the Facilitator. 7. Guidelines for Setting Up and Running Building Language using LEGO® Bricks. 8. Measuring Outcomes. 9. Examples of Cases. Resource Appendix.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2016
Vorwort	Georgina Gomez De La Gomez De La Cuesta
Zusatzinfo	16 pages of illustrated resources
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 230 mm
Gewicht	237 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Logopädie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-78592-061-8 / 1785920618
ISBN-13	978-1-78592-061-5 / 9781785920615
Zustand	Neuware