Help for Language

HELP for Language 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. Improve understanding of abstract and ambiguous language by interpreting subtle meanings; discriminating between literal and rhetorical questions; explaining metaphors, proverbs, and similes; and explaining oxymorons and meanings of intonations. Written in the best-selling format of the HELP series, these language lessons are known for their: expansive content appeal to a broad age-range goal-driven activities gradual increase in complexity within and between activities application to a wide range of developmental and acquired language processing 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 Copyright 2004 Components IEP goals, answer key