Action Picture Test

Action Picture Test

Author: Catherine E. Renfrew

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780863883361

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This test assesses, from short sentence answers to specified questions, the age levels of the information content and grammatical usage. It is suitable for the age range of 3 to 8 years. It contains 10 full-colour cards, photocopiable scoring form, and manual.


Word Finding Vocabulary Test

Word Finding Vocabulary Test

Author: Catherine Renfrew

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-02

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9780863888076

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The extent to which pictures, objects, arranged in order of difficulty, can be named correctly is assessed using this test. Most of the objects illustrated have no alternative name, so the responses of children can be quickly measured. Completely revised, this new edition contains 50 line-drawn pictures, a manual and a photocopiable scoring form. Catherine Renfrew's three tests have been used for many years and provide a means of asessing children's speech and language. All tests are suitable for use with 3-8 year olds are norm refered to enable therapists to produce comparative results. Norms are given at six-monthly intervals for both the Action Picture Test and Word finding Vocabulary and monthly for the Bus Story Test.


Bus Story Test

Bus Story Test

Author: Catherine E. Renfrew

Publisher: Speechmark Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9780863883408

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- A test of narrative speech.- Age range: 3 to 9 years.Booklet, photocopiable scoring form, manual, boxed.


Bus Story Test

Bus Story Test

Author: Catherine Renfrew

Publisher: Renfrew Language Scales

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780863888083

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The age level of consecutive speech used in retelling a story can be assessed from the information content, sentence length and grammatical usage of this revised test. The test includes a coloured picture story book, a scoring form to photocopy and a manual, but also requires the use of audio recording equipment.


Developing Narrative Comprehension

Developing Narrative Comprehension

Author: Ute Bohnacker

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9027260346

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Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for bilinguals. This can be partially explained by the lack of cross-culturally robust, cross-linguistic instruments targeting early narration. This book presents an inference-based model of narrative comprehension and a tool that grew out of a large-scale European project on multilingualism. Covering a range of language settings, the book uses the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to answer the question which narrative comprehension skills (bilingual) children can be expected to master at a certain age, and explores how such comprehension is affected (or not affected) by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Linking theory to method, the book will appeal to researchers in linguistics and psychology and graduate students interested in narrative, multilingualism, and language acquisition.


The Adult Speech Therapy Workbook

The Adult Speech Therapy Workbook

Author: Chung Hwa Brewer

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9781733863339

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THE ADULT SPEECH THERAPY WORKBOOK is your go-to resource for handouts and worksheets. It was designed for speech therapists new to adult speech therapy and covers the most common diagnoses and disorders across all adult speech therapy settings, from hospitals, to skilled nursing facilities, to home health. This workbook is packed with over 580 pages of practical, evidenced-based treatment material.


Rocket Fuel

Rocket Fuel

Author: Gino Wickman

Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1941631150

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Discover the vital relationship that will take your company from "What's next?" to "We have liftoff!" Visionaries have groundbreaking ideas. Integrators make those ideas a reality. This explosive combination is the key to getting everything you want out of your business. It worked for Disney. It worked for McDonald's. It worked for Ford. It can work for you. From the author of the bestselling Traction, Rocket Fuel details the integral roles of the Visionary and Integrator and explains how an effective relationship between the two can help your business thrive. Offering advice to help Visionary-minded and Integrator-minded individuals find one another, Rocket Fuel also features assessments so you're able to determine whether you're a Visionary or an Integrator. Without an Integrator, a Visionary is far less likely to succeed long-term ,and realize the company's ultimate goals—likewise, with no Visionary, an Integrator can't rise to his or her full potential. When these two people come together to share their natural talents and innate skill sets, it's like rocket fuel—they have the power to reach new heights for virtually any company or organization.


Language for Thinking

Language for Thinking

Author: Stephen Parsons

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780863885754

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While most children develop verbal reasoning skills with relative ease, others find it more challenging. Verbal reasoning is particularly difficult for children who are recognised as having delayed language skills, specific language impairment, Autistic Spectrum Disorder (including Asperger's Syndrome), pragmatic language impairment or moderate learning difficulties. Children with less obvious oral language difficulties may begin to struggle when they start to read. This photocopiable resource provides a clear structure to assist teachers, SENCOs, learning support assistants and speech language therapists in developing children's language from the concrete to the abstract. It is based on fifty picture and verbal scenarios that can be used flexibly with a wide range of ages and abilities. Quick, practical and easy to use in the classroom, this programme can be used with individual children, in small groups or can form the basis of a literacy lesson or speech language therapy session. Question sheets are carefully structured to promote children's development of inference, verbal reasoning and thinking skills. The three parallel assessments of spoken and written language can be used to assess each child's starting level and then to monitor progress; score forms and worksheets for each lesson are included.


School, Family, and Community Partnerships

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

Author: Joyce L. Epstein

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1483320014

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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.