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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 » (New Edition)

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Authors: James D. MacDonald
ISBN-13: 9781843107583, ISBN-10: 1843107589
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: James D. MacDonald

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Pt. IIntroduction to the model25
1The 30-year journey with 1000 children : how communicating partners came about27
2Guiding principles36
3Key features of communicating partners and contrasts with traditional approaches to autism and other language disorders38
4Examples of children studied for this book54
5Theoretical foundations for communicating partners60
6Basic components of communicating partners : five developmental stages and five relationship strategies62
Pt. IIFive stages of communication75
7Interaction : the first stage in learning to communicate81
8Nonverbal communication : the second stage in learning to communicate113
9Social language : the third stage in learning to communicate147
10Conversation : the fourth stage in learning to communicate190
11Civil behavior : the fifth stage in learning to communicate231
Pt. 3Following your child's development from isolation to civil conversation275
12The adult-child relationship map for assessment and planning277
13The environment form309
AppResearch support for communicating partners312

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