Semantic-Pragmatic Language Disorder

This resource pack is designed to fill the need for materials that provide a simple and practical framework to identify, treat and manage semantic-pragmatic disorder in children.

The pack has grown out of the authors' day-to-day experience of working with these children and their families, and the therapy ideas offered are a selection of the best activities that have proved effective in everyday use.

• An overview section places semantic-pragmatic disorder in its context, discusses its origins and identifies the characteristics of this disorder in comparison to autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
• Offers a separate section, the Questions and Answers booklet, as a photocopiable guide that can be handed to teachers and parents.
• Problems Solutions highlights the difficulties children and parents can encounter with this type of language disorder and offers some helpful strategies.
• Developmental Checklists in four stages are included. Covering the years 0-2, 2-5, 6-8 and 9-16, therapy ideas for each stage can be cross-referenced to the checklists.
• Therapy ideas related to areas of difficulty detailed in the above four stages and therapy materials to supplement these ideas are included.

Age: 0-16