Plan for People Play - Softcover

Fern Sussman; Elaine Weitzman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0921145489 ISBN 13: 9780921145486

Publisher: Hanen Centre, 2014

Synopsis

Plan for People Play is the first booklet in the Make Play R.O.C.K.™ series for parents of children with autism. This booklet offers simple, research-based ideas for how parents can build their child's social interaction skills during "people games" interaction-focused games that provide an ideal context for learning.

Highlights include examples of over two dozen people games and a "Game Plan" template to help parents plan their next people game and how they'll help their child learn.

About this title

About the Author

Fern Sussman is a speech-language pathologist and the former clinical program director of Autism Services at the Hanen Centre. Fern is also the author of the Hanen Centre's More Than Words and TalkAbility guidebooks. In addition, she has developed two Hanen Programs for parents by the same names. These parent-implemented early language intervention programs are offered by Hanen trained clinicians around the world. Ms. Sussman has devoted her career to giving parents the knowledge and skills to become their children's very best language facilitators.

Elaine Weitzman, Executive Director of The Hanen Centre since 1992, is a speech-language pathologist and an Adjunct Professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Speech-Language Pathology. Over the last 30 years, Ms. Weitzman has contributed to the development of Hanen Programs, co-authored many Hanen guidebooks, and collaborated with the University of Toronto to conduct research on the efficacy of Hanen Programs and on caregiver-child interactions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hanen Centre
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0921145489
• ISBN 13: 9780921145486
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 51
• Editor: Martin Townsend