This practical CD-ROM resource provides a simple, shared framework to help speech & language therapists work more effectively with the families, carers, and teachers of children with severe and profound learning disabilities. The Profile immediately improves the way therapists support and advise teachers and families, resulting in a more united and holistic approach towards the child's development. It provides a clear descriptive breakdown of five key areas of language and communication development from birth to the development and use of grammatical sentences.
Key Features
- Attention Comprehension: What the child understands.
- Expression: How the child communicates.
- Sound System: The child's use of sounds.
- Use of Communication: What and why the child communicates.
- Individual Representation: Creates a visual representation of the child's development across each key area.
Additional Information
Enables information from therapists' assessments and parents' or teachers' informal observations and experiences to be combined, creating a more equal and shared view of the child's skills in their everyday life. Establishes the communicative phase that the child is working within, enabling the most appropriate style of speech and language therapy intervention to be identified based on the child's developmental learning style and needs. Results in a reduction in dissatisfaction and misunderstandings when identifying targets and setting activities with both teachers and families, and in agreeing speech & language therapy provision.
Specifications
Age: All Ages
