Speechmark Language for Thinking

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Speechmark Language for Thinking - A Structured Approach for Young Children - by Stephen Parsons and Anna Branagan. While most children develop verbal reasoning skills with relative ease, others find it more challenging. Verbal reasoning is particularly difficult for children who have delayed language skills, specific language impairment, autistic spectrum disorder (including Asperger's syndrome), pragmatic language impairment or moderate learning difficulties. This photocopiable resource provides a clear structure to assist teachers and speech language therapists develop children's language from the concrete to the abstract. Language for Thinking is based on fifty picture and verbal scenarios that can be used flexibly with a wide range of ages and abilities.

Language for Thinking:
- Quick, practical and easy to use in the classroom and can be used with individual children, in small groups or can form the basis of a literacy lesson or speech language therapy session.
- Structured to promote children's development of inference, verbal reasoning and thinking skills.
- Provides three parallel assessments of spoken and written language to assess each child's starting level and then to monitor their progress - includes score sheets and worksheets for each lesson.

192 pages, softcover book

Age: 4-12

Language for Thinking Chapter Guide:

- Introduction

- How to use this resource

- Assessment pictures record sheets

- Assessment texts

- Scenarios

- Scenario texts

- Tracker sheets

- Worksheets

- Question symbols

- Frequently asked questions

- Assessment sample answers

- Assessment scoring guides

- Bibliography