1st Edition

Learning To Speak A Manual for Parents

196 Pages
by Psychology Press

196 Pages
by Psychology Press

196 Pages
by Psychology Press

First published in 1984. The reissue of this manual is timely for two reasons: The dramatic increase in the incidence of autism and the use of this program with children who have autism and their parents since 1984 by one of the authors (PRZ). This manual has been used successfully to produce spontaneous three-word sentences in the majority of children in the original Boston sample (i.e., those... Read more
Chapter 1 Overview; Chapter 2 The Nature of Noncompliant and Resistant Behavior; Chapter 3 Reversing Noncompliant Behaviors; Chapter 4 An Overview of the Language Teaching Sessions; Chapter 5 Teaching Single Words; Chapter 6 Teaching Two-Word Sentences; Chapter 7 Teaching Complex Sentences;

Biography

Philip R. Zelazo Montreal Children's Hospital and McGill University. Richard B. Kearsley Tufts University School of Medicine. Judy A. Ungerer Macquarie University, Australia.