Working with Pragmatics: A Practical Guide to Promoting Communicative Confidence (Working With... Series) - Softcover

Lucie Andersen-Wood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863881688 ISBN 13: 9780863881688

Publisher: Speechmark Publishing Ltd

Synopsis

This title covers the principles and practice of pragmatics. It offers an opportunity to explore this subject with confidence and to plan intervention programmes for effective management. It offers practical pragmatic teaching activities to develop communication skills. Assessment and diagnostic measures are provided which, together with many activity ideas, make this an essential resource. It includes a photocopiable client-centred assessment form, photocopiable child and client information sheets and a list of characteristics of pragmatic dysfunction. It is a welcome addition to the materials available to professionals planning therapy and teaching programmes using this approach.

About this title

About the Author

Lucie Anderson-Wood qualified as a speech and language therapist in 1984. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, England. Benita Rae Smith has worked as a speech and language therapist since 1958 and from 1971 she has also taught student clinicians in Leicester, England. Lucie and Rae have both worked as senior lecturers in speech pathology at De Montfort University, Leicester, England and have been tutors on the University of Birmingham, School of Education distance learning course in speech and language difficulties.

Review

"The 'Working withs' are renowned for their accessible format and prose style, which makes them invaluable source books to the working clinician. This book is no exception." Clinical Linguistics Phonetics 'It is an excellent book which I have found most useful for many of the modules I teach.' - Oonagh Reilly, Route Director, SLT, School of Health and Policy Studies, University of Central England '...an excellent, well-researched and logically written book.' - Carole E. Higginbottom, SLT at Storm House School, Speech and Language Therapy in Practice 'This addition to the' Working With' series offers an opportunity to explore the emerging discipline of pragmatics with confidence, and shows how to plan effective management programmes.' - Therapy Weekly 'The chapters are well laid out, references and indexes are easy to use.' - Pam Buckley. Team Leader, Children's Therapy Services, Poole, Dorset, NAPOT Journal 'The book is very practical and describes comprehensively a range of approaches to therapy and therapeutic techniques and activities.' - Jennifer Smith, Community Speech and Language Therapist, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Therapy Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: Speechmark Publishing Ltd
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863881688
• ISBN 13: 9780863881688
• Binding: Spiral-bound