Building Language Using LEGO Bricks (Paperback)

Dawn Ralph

ISBN 10: 1785920618 / ISBN 13: 9781785920615

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2016

About this Item

Paperback. 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 communicationHelp children with complex needs to communicate with this unique tool, derived from the highly effective LEGO-Based Therapy. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Language Using LEGO Bricks (Paperback)
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785920618
• ISBN 13: 9781785920615
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Gina Gómez de la Cuesta completed her PhD in 2008 at the Cambridge University Autism Research Centre, running and evaluating LEGO® therapy under the supervision of Daniel LeGoff, Simon Baron-Cohen and Ayla Humphrey. She is a trained teacher and has worked at the National Autistic Society as Action Research Leader. She runs training for professionals interested in LEGO® Therapy when she can and has run LEGO® Clubs in schools and clinical settings. She is now in her second year of Clinical Psychology training at the University of East Anglia.