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Preface | |
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About This Book | |
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Why Doesn't He Talk to Us? | |
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What Are Scripts? What Is Script Fading? | |
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Scripts, Script Fading, and Activity Schedules | |
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Building Prerequisite Skills: Scripts for Children Who Do Not Yet Talk | |
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Why Use Scripts with Nonverbal Children? | |
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Making Social Interaction Fun | |
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Pairing Pictures, Words, and Objects or Activities | |
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Creating Helpful Language Environments | |
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Not All Activities Are Social | |
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Preparing to Teach | |
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Observe Preferences | |
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Select Scripts | |
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Record the Scripts | |
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Enlist the Help of Two Adults | |
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Construct an Activity Schedule | |
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Teaching Children to Use Scripts: Prompters and Conversation Partners | |
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How to Be an Effective Prompter | |
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Fading Prompts | |
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How to Be a Good Conversation Partner | |
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Dealing with Errors | |
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Measuring Progress | |
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What's Next? | |
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Scripts for Children Who Say Words or Phrases | |
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Initiating Conversation with a Word or Phrase | |
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An Additional Measure of Progress | |
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What If a Child Doesn't Say the Scripts? | |
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Fading Audiotaped Scripts | |
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Measuring Scripted and Unscripted Interaction | |
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New Definitions of Interaction | |
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Observing, Scoring, and Graphing Scripted and Unscripted Interaction | |
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The Importance of Two Observers | |
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More Scripts and More Interaction Opportunities | |
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Talking about Reward Activities | |
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Talking about Play Activities | |
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Talking about Home-Living Activities | |
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Extending Conversation | |
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When Are Scripts Faded? | |
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Scripts for Beginning Readers | |
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Fading Pictures and Audiotapes | |
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Talk Books | |
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What to Do When Conversation Fails | |
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Scripts for More Accomplished Readers | |
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Scripts about Past and Future Activities | |
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Photo Albums and Scrapbooks | |
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Using the Telephone | |
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More about Fading Written Scripts | |
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Don't Forget Rewards! | |
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Measuring More Complex Conversation | |
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Defining Interaction | |
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Types of Interaction | |
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Using Scripts to Promote Peer Interaction | |
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Peer Tutoring | |
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Interaction with Siblings | |
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Peer Interaction in Groups | |
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Teaching Young People to Create Their Own Scripts | |
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Using Topic Lists | |
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Writing Their Own Scripts | |
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Scripts for Nonreaders and People with Severe Disabilities | |
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Silent Partners | |
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Pictures as Cues for Conversation | |
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Making It Work | |
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Selecting Scripts | |
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Modeling Conversation | |
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Fading Prompts | |
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Programming Generalized Interaction Skills | |
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Solving Problems | |
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Audio Card Readers | |
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Data Sheet Used to Measure the Progress of a Child Who Is Not-Yet-Verbal | |
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Daily Individual Progress Report Chart for a Child Who Is Not-Yet-Verbal | |
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Data Sheet Used to Measure the Progress of a Child Who Says Words or Phrases | |
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Daily Individual Progress Report Chart for a Child Who Says Words or Phrases | |
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Data Sheet for Scoring Scripted and Unscripted Interaction | |
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Data Sheet for a Child Who Uses Sentences | |
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Button-Activated Voice Recorders | |
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Hand Counter | |
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Materials Needed for Script-Fading Programs | |
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References | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |