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Building Language Using LEGO (R) Bricks: A Practical Guide

Dawn Ralph

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Description for Building Language Using LEGO (R) Bricks: A Practical Guide Paperback. Harness the power of LEGO(R) 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. Num Pages: 152 pages, 16 pages of illustrated resources. BIC Classification: JMC; JNSG2; MMZL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Building Language using LEGO (R) 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 - ... Read more

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Publisher

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2016

Condition

New

Number of Pages

152

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781785920615

SKU

V9781785920615

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About Dawn Ralph

Dawn Ralph gained her Speech Pathology & Therapy degree from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in 1985 and has worked as a paediatric speech and language therapist ever since. She has worked in a variety of settings from a paediatric brain injury unit to both specialist and mainstream schools. Jacqui Rochester has been working with SEN children for over sixteen years. ... Read more

Reviews for Building Language Using LEGO (R) Bricks: A Practical Guide

This book is organised, easy to read and gives clear instructions about how to set up and run a session with children interested in LEGO (TM) and construction. The intervention has been adapted and developed using the technique hands-on with the children, and it shows. Practical guidance and an engaging activity make the intervention do-able!
Gina Davies, Speech and ... Read moreLanguage Therapist, Autism Specialist Building Language Using LEGO (TM) Bricks is a fantastic approach, and the book did not disappoint. The language used throughout is accessible, yet extremely detailed, making it a book for parents and professionals alike. I have been lucky enough to attend the course run by Dawn and Jacqui, and their personalities shone through as I read the book; it's the perfect companion to the training Dawn and Jacqui provide, and is a must have for anyone who is interested in using LEGO (TM) as a tool to deliver language therapy.
Karen Sullivan, founder of Autism Puzzles It was a pleasure and an honor to read Dawn Ralph and Jacqui Rochester's guidebook for language development using LEGO (R) materials. The work is an extension and expansion of the LEGO (R)-based therapy approach that has been previously published by my colleagues and me. That work focused on social development strategies using LEGO (R), which necessarily involved an emphasis on effective communication. Ralph and Rochester have taken that emphasis a step further, and have focused in particular on the language-based aspects of the LEGO (R) therapy process - the receptive and expressive components of functional and social communication that are emphasized by the joint, collaborative LEGO (R)-building process. They have also shown how the method can be utilized with children with cognitive and language-based disabilities who were not included in the original LEGO (R)-based therapy trials. Ralph and Rochester's work is clearly and succinctly written, well-researched, but not mired down in theory or the minutiae of research literature. It is, therefore, a very pragmatic, commonsense, and yet evidence-based methodology, accessible to anyone in the helping professions who has an interest in improving functional and social communication in children with language-based disabilities. It is a special pleasure for me to read this pragmatic and well-considered manuscript. When I first started doing LEGO (R)-based therapy groups in the later 1990's, there was very little literature available on effective interventions, and none of my colleagues were aware of LEGO (R) as a potential therapy tool. It was really only Tony Attwood, and Robert and Lynn Koegel who were supportive of this type of approach - using naturally-reinforcing content and materials, and utilizing peers to help shape social development. Later, I was also encouraged by Fred Volkmar's kind words about my first published study. He said the method showed promise. In that first paper, I invited other clinicians and researchers to consider utilizing the LEGO (R) materials, and to try variations of the method I was using, with different populations, etc. Since that time, there have been other publications based on the original method, but this is the first real modification and extension of the LEGO (R)-based therapy method. So, twelve years later, the manuscript by Ralph and Rochester, does show evidence that the original approach can be modified and generalized, and provides a long-awaited response to my invitation. I will pass along the encouraging words that I received from the venerable Dr. Volkmar: this work of Ralph and Rochester certainly shows promise. I hope it catches on.
Daniel B. LeGoff, paediatric, neuropsychologist, and originator of LEGO (R)-Based Therapy Show Less

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