Teach Me With Pictures

Simone Griffin is a speech and language therapist and has worked with children with speech, language and communication impairments for the past 12 years in Australia, UK and Canada. She has worked in school, hospital and clinic settings, as well as running her own independent speech therapy practice in Toronto, Canada. She is co-author of Motivate to Communicate: 300 Games and Activities for Your Child with Autism also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Ruth Harris is a specialist speech and language therapist working in the UK with children and adolescents with autism and learning disabilities. She is currently based in a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team, and has also worked extensively in schools and early years settings. Linda Hodgdon, M.Ed., CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist who is internationally known as a pioneer in developing the use of visual strategies to support communication for students with the communication, behavior or social skill challenges that are common in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Linda is the author of the international best-seller, Visual Strategies for Improving Communication: Practical Supports for Autism Spectrum Disorders. She lives in Troy, Michigan.

From the start of this book, it's clear, non jargonistic language makes it easy to read, understand and follow... This book I feel could easily be utilised equally by parents, support staff and professionals alike... Both the images contained within the book and those accessed via the accompanying online downloadable content, demonstrate the type of illustrations required to hopefully aid skill development and understanding for a child on the autistic spectrum, By giving the reader permission to photocopy and utilise these images, it will hopefully increase the likelihood of this useful techniques of skills teaching being attempted by those who read the book... This book with its easy to follow, visual pictures and simple language is a wonderful resource to begin to open up communication and skill development for children on the autistic spectrum, their families and all those that support them. As the saying goes "it does what it says on the tin!"

• 1. Introduction. 2. Pretend Play. 3. Drawing Pictures. 4. Building and Construction Games. 5. Cooking. 6. Arts and Crafts. 7. Everyday Living.