Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Autism

Teaching Communication Skills addresses the needs of nonverbal and beginning communicators, plus children with high functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome. The book provides a PDF on CD with many valuable reproducibles, like reinforcement preference sheets and symbol recognition assessments.

A unique resource that focuses on the one issue pertinent to all individuals on the spectrum—communication.

Contents include: Assessments, teaching communication skills, motivation and communication, using cues and prompts, teaching verbal language, using AAC, combining methods, following directions, tone of voice and emphasis, echolalia, appropriate communication, conversation skills, developing social understanding, and teaching across environments.

By Pat Crissey, an autism consultant and author of Getting the Message. Softbound book, 236 pages, 2009.