Title Communicating partners : 30 years of building responsive relationships with late-talking children including autism, Asperger's syndrome (ASD), Down syndrome, and typical development developmental guides for professionals and parents / James D. MacDonald

Edition 1st American pbk. ed Published Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) Contents Cover; Communicating Partners; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Introduction to the Model; 1 The 30-Year Journey with 1000 Children: How Communicating Partners Came About; 2 Guiding Principles; 3 Key Features of Communicating Partners and Contrasts with Traditional Approaches to Autism and Other Language Disorders; 4 Examples of Children Studied for this Book; 5 Theoretical Foundations for Communicating Partners; 6 Basic Components of Communicating Partners: Five Developmental Stages and Five Relationship Strategies; Part 2 Five Stages of Communication Summary Communicating Partners, the result of over thirty years of clinical practice and research work with pre-verbal and verbal children with language delays, offers an innovative approach to working with late talking children that focuses on developing relationships through mutual understanding. Providing detailed maps of what children and their life partners need to do to ensure effective social relationships, the program focuses on five key stages of communication development - interactive play, nonverbal communication, social language, conversation, and civil behavior - and five life-long respon Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Language disorders in children -- Treatment Communicative disorders in children -- Treatment Developmentally disabled children -- Language Autistic children -- Language Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- Language Down syndrome -- Patients -- Language Language acquisition -- Parent participation. Parent and child. Parent-Child Relations Speech & Language Disorders & Therapy. Child & Developmental Psychology. Autistic children -- Language Communicative disorders in children -- Treatment Developmentally disabled children -- Language Language acquisition -- Parent participation Language disorders in children -- Treatment Parent and child Form Electronic book ISBN 1846420369 9781846420368 9781843107583 1843107589 1280266791 9781280266799 9786610266791 6610266794 1423710061 9781423710066

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