List Books » 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
Authors: James D. MacDonald
ISBN-13: 9781843107583, ISBN-10: 1843107589
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: New Edition
Children with autism and their life partners - their parents, families, peers and educators - who are not on the autism spectrum can feel as though they live in separate, and even incompatible worlds. Communicating Partners, the result of over thirty years of clinical practice, research and professional teaching, offers an innovative approach to working with children with ASDs that focuses on developing these relationships through mutual understanding.
Pt. I | Introduction to the model | 25 |
1 | The 30-year journey with 1000 children : how communicating partners came about | 27 |
2 | Guiding principles | 36 |
3 | Key features of communicating partners and contrasts with traditional approaches to autism and other language disorders | 38 |
4 | Examples of children studied for this book | 54 |
5 | Theoretical foundations for communicating partners | 60 |
6 | Basic components of communicating partners : five developmental stages and five relationship strategies | 62 |
Pt. II | Five stages of communication | 75 |
7 | Interaction : the first stage in learning to communicate | 81 |
8 | Nonverbal communication : the second stage in learning to communicate | 113 |
9 | Social language : the third stage in learning to communicate | 147 |
10 | Conversation : the fourth stage in learning to communicate | 190 |
11 | Civil behavior : the fifth stage in learning to communicate | 231 |
Pt. 3 | Following your child's development from isolation to civil conversation | 275 |
12 | The adult-child relationship map for assessment and planning | 277 |
13 | The environment form | 309 |
App | Research support for communicating partners | 312 |