Special Needs

If you have a child with special needs, let me recommend some of our titles more
suited to your child’s needs as recommended by fellow consultants, one who is
also a Speech & Language Pathologist.

Features that make Usborne books ideal for Special Needs:

• “Talk-about” realistic illustrations are filled with action, detail, and
visual stimulation
• Usborne books are interactive as communication is interactive.
• Step-by-step features are perfect for sequencing, breaking things down into parts, and increased understanding.
• Problem-solving tasks are built into Usborne at many levels.
• Activity-based learning is optimal for children with special learning needs.
• Bite-sized chunks increase both understanding and attention.
• Multifunctional – one book can be used for a variety of goals!
• Durable and inexpensive – Get more for your money!
• The yellow duck is a “reinforcer” and “teacher”!

To help you decide which books would be best for your child, refer to the
list, Usborne Titles for Special Needs. This list of books will help you get
started in your goal to engage your child in reading and to establish a
rewarding reading experience!!

Usborne Titles for Special Needs
By Suzanne Hawkins and Susan Wandishin
Top 11 Series or Books for “Speech and Language”
• First 100 Words – “Talk-about” pictures of everyday activities for use with language, articulation, and phonology goals. Sticker book version also available.
• Everyday Words– Detailed claymation like scenes, appropriate for all age levels and language goals. Also ideal for written language with key vocabulary provided in margins. Book can become a game board or even more interactive with a sticker book.
• First 1000 Words (H), Sticker book and CD-ROM – Includes pages categorized by scene, as well as, pages about opposites, seasons, actions, sizes and more. Perfect for vocabulary, articulation, and language goals for pre-K through adult.
• Slot books – All slot books are perfect for the interactive nature of therapy. They elicit language through actions of moving the character, are filled with concept vocabulary, and make books come alive for children who are not book-lovers. (Turn-taking and social gestures also reinforced.)
• Lift the Flap – Interactive stories with rhyming, predictable text. Action-filled illustrations elicit language, questions, and the hidden characters are perfect for reinforcing prepositions.
• Easy Words to Read – Rhyming text is perfect for phonemic awareness. Also, ideal for simple narratives, prediction, artic and phonology, etc.
• Touchy-Feely – Perfect for negation, descriptive words, turn taking, and predictable language structures.
• Farmyard Tales – Perfect for early sequencing of stories, narratives, articulation carryover, and early literacy. Each story is told at 2 language/ reading levels.
• What’s Happening? Detailed illustrations elicit questions and answers, predicting, descriptions, storytelling with one picture, and more.
• Puzzle Books – Problem-solving, predicting, attention to detail, auditory memory, and sequencing are just a few of the skills in these series. Books for all ages.
• What Shall I? And Playtime – Step-by-step projects are perfect for extension activities, sequencing, and retelling.

Autism and Asperger’s
• Autism- A developmental disorder that primarily affects communication and social skills and is typically present before age 3. It has a broad range of severity from mild to severe, thus the term “autism spectrum disorder.”
• Asperger’s Disorder – A disorder of social interactions and restricted interests without clinical impairment of language skills. People with Asperger’s disorder typically have above average intelligence.

Contact me for my PDF list of
Top 10 Series for Autism
and
Features of series Language Books



See also: http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/phonics