Ages:16-AdultGrades:11-Adult

Treat a wide range of clients with aphasia and adjust the tasks quickly within the therapy session with this book.

Clients respond to your prompts while looking at items pictured individually and in scenes. The picture stimuli and verbal prompts are adaptable to a variety of treatment approaches, including linguistic stimulation, semantic features, and phonological treatment.

The book is divided into two difficulty levels, and each level includes pictures and prompts for auditory comprehension and verbal expression tasks.

Level 1presents six items pictured individually on a page.

• Theauditory comprehensiontasks include:
  • picture identification
  • two and three item series
  • one-item descriptions
  • two-item descriptions
  • yes/no questions
• Theverbal expressiontasks include:
  • word imitation
  • automatic completion
  • sentence completion
  • sentence imitation
  • sentence stimulation
  • naming by semantic association
  • confrontational naming

Level 2uses simple, everyday scenes.

• Theauditory comprehensiontasks include:
  • yes/no questions
  • sentence comprehension
  • listening for words in sentences
  • following directions
• Theverbal expressiontasks include:
  • open sentence completion with a noun
  • open sentence completion with a phrase
  • sentence formulation with verb/noun cues
  • sentence formulation with noun cues
  • expanding expression
  • verbal reasoning/problem solving

176 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2009