Group Treatment Flashcards
Community Connection
opportunity to practice communication skills in a social setting with peer and clinician support.
can practice on building up from the word level to sentence then short narrative, using a SET vocabulary each week
thematic-based language group
Newsletter Group
Address written narrative composition (at sentence/paragraph level)
good to reinforce strong written language
Film Group
Address oral expression
Book Club
refer if written language comprehension is an area of strength
opportunity to read for pleasure
opportunity to improve narrative language by organizing and producing narratives during discussion
Strategies to use in group:
-benefit from paraphrasing smaller sections while reading to improve encoding and recall of details
Toastmasters
Functional setting
Benefit from organizing, writing and presenting oral narratives
benefit from use of graphic organizer when contrsucting narratives
Discourse Treatment
Conversational group
focusing on current events
goals can vary for each member
- paragraph level
- sentence level
- communicative gist
- yes/no reliability
Thematic Language Groups
Increase contextual discourse
Increase initiation/# of communicative attempts
Using themes in treatment allows for repetition and redundancy in vocabulary which increases individual’s change of communicative success
