Grade 7 | SPEECH & LANGUAGE

Focus on Function

Gaining Essential Communication Skills

Second Edition
spiral-bound softcover
Evelyn R. Klein, PhD, CCC-SLP | Shelly E. Hahn
  • Product Code 11940 ( MR #049450 )

Price $89.00

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Focus on Function–Second Edition is a compendium of functional communication activities developed for the individual with mild to moderate deficits in reading, writing, listening, and speaking that impact daily life.
You will also find it to be an important tool for your adolescent and adult students who speak English as a second language or have learning differences, and others needing to strengthen communicative activities of daily living. The primary purpose of Focus on Function–Second Edition is to foster independence.
 
Each activity is categorized according to guidelines established by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) Functional Communication Measures (FCMs), the American Occupational Therapy Association’s (AOTA) skills categories, and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Codes.
 
The activities are organized into the following areas:
  • Basic Communication, including expressing ideas and starting conversations
  • Using the Phone, including making appointments and taking messages
  • Managing and Understanding Time, including designing a schedule and using a calendar
  • Managing and Understanding Finances, including check writing and using an ATM
  • Shopping, including working with money and using coupons
  • Meals and Cooking, including planning menus, writing shopping lists, and cooking
  • Getting Around, including reading and understanding signs, symbols, and maps
  • Activities Around the House, including ordering, reading directions, and writing letters
  • Social Participation, including social exchanges and discussing feelings and emotions
  • Leisure Activities, including using the Internet and communicating via email
  • Work Related Tasks, including resumé writing and completing applications
 
The manual provides reproducible workbook pages and tasks, such as checks, application forms, calendars, maps, TV logs, recipes, restaurant menus and checks, monthly bills, catalog pages, and photos.

  • Introduction

  • Table of Contents

  • Pages 297
  • Copyright 2007