Communicating partners [[electronic resource] ] : 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 / / James D. MacDonald

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450292403321
• Autore: MacDonald James D (James David), <1940->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2004
• ISBN: 1-280-26679-1; 9786610266791; 1-4237-1006-1; 1-84642-036-9
• Edizione: [1st American pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.92/85506
• Soggetti: Asperger's syndrome - Patients - Language; Autistic children - Language; Communicative disorders in children - Treatment; Developmentally disabled children - Language; Down syndrome - Patients - Language; Language acquisition - Parent participation; Language disorders in children - Treatment; Parent and child; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Communicating Partners; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Introduction to the Model; 1 The 30-Year Journey with 1000 Children: How Communicating Partners Came About; 2 Guiding Principles; 3 Key Features of Communicating Partners and Contrasts with Traditional Approaches to Autism and Other Language Disorders; 4 Examples of Children Studied for this Book; 5 Theoretical Foundations for Communicating Partners; 6 Basic Components of Communicating Partners: Five Developmental Stages and Five Relationship Strategies; ; Part 2 Five Stages of Communication; 7 Interaction: The First Stage in Learning to Communicate 8 Nonverbal Communication: The Second Stage in Learning to Communicate; 9 Social Language: The Third Stage in Learning to Communicate; 10 Conversation: The Fourth Stage in Learning to Communicate; 11 Civil Behavior: The Fifth Stage in Learning to Communicate; Part 3 Following Your Child's Development from Isolation to Civil Conversation; 12 The Adult-Child Relationship Map for Assessment and Planning; 13 The Environment Form; Appendix: Research Support for Communicating Partners; References; Subject Index; Author Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The program focuses on five key stages of communication development - interactive play, nonverbal communication, social language, conversation, and civil behaviour - and five life-long responsive strategies to use every day to build relationships within the child's own world.