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Cognitive Activities
Speech
Retraining Cognition:
Techniques and Applications.
By Frederick J. Parente and Douglas
J. Herrmann. Provides techniques
for teaching problem solving,
decision-making, concept learning,
organization, planning and rea-
soning skills in general. Describes
how the human information pro-
cessing system works and how it
may fail after an injury. Contents
include models and theories of cog-
nitive rehabilitation, assessing the multimodal system, retraining thinking skills, passive modal interventions and support ideas. 275 pages, hardcover.
0816-03-042 $136.50
Building Word Recall. By Susan
Breiding. The practical and progres-
sive sequence for building word
recall skills moves clients from
automatic responses to purposeful
speech. All activities can be adapted
to the individual needs of clients,
displaying mild, moderate and severe
impairments. Twelve target skill
areas include yes/no usage, word
association, sentence completion/daily life, sentence/question, sentence/completion, contrasting pairs, people, objects, catego- ries, functions, “wh” questions, describing yourself, sequencing events, describing places. 425 pages, softcover.
0815-34-254 $125.80
Sound Stories For Adults.
By Katie Schwartz, Claudia
Strauss, Cheryl Gross.
Functional adult-level reading
materials for specific speech
sound practice. For adults ex-
periencing dysarthria, apraxia,
other communication disorders,
people desiring to modify an
accent, speech reading practice,
and for those working on general speech improvement. Contains six or more stories for each phoneme–consonants, vowels, diphthongs. Progresses in difficulty level and style. Variety of materials from general lifestyle to journalistic to business writing style. Approximately 200 pages of materials.
0815-04-661 $54.50
Targeting Word
Retrieval. This
book focuses on
different aspects of
word retrieval, while
progressing in diffi-
culty. Exercises have
large print and can be
adapted for auditory or
reading comprehension,
verbal or written expression, spelling, memory or group
work. Workbook is about 80 pages. 0815-64-269 $63.00
Look to the Left.
Valuable reference book
for determining which
vision quadrant or quad-
rants have been affected
by brain damage. Helps
clients learn to compensate
for vision loss. Contains 30
graded puzzles involving
drawing, puzzle solving,
copy activities and reading
exercises. Soft cover, spiral bound. Latex free. 4030 $98.05
Word-Finding ProgramTM. Repetition to retrain the process of calling up words and phrases is the key to successful word-finding therapy. 140 beauti- fully illustrated cards and a manual of word-retrieval exercises. Exercises relate to real-life experiences. Exercises involve opposites, occupations, syn- onyms, categories, and questions. A cueing sequence is printed on the back of each card, and more cueing strategies are provided in the manual. 5590-31 $114.40
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