Weekly Speech and Communication Groups

Service Description

Groups of 2-5 working on communication skills including but not limited to Oral speech skills - speech intelligibility and clarity - Articulation of speech sounds - production of multisyllabic words Multimodal communication -Sign and gestural language -Using sign to augment communication -Written and pictorial communication Language skills -Broadening and expanding vocabulary - Asking and Answering questions -Using question forms -Lengthening sentences and utterances -complex sentences forms with conjunctions - Repeating and following multi-step instructions - Topic Maintenance and bridging conversational skills - Using on topic comments, finding commonalities and using “follow up questions” Paralinguistic and Pragmatic skills Volume, rate, pausing, intonation, proximity and non verbal communication all impact the Many aspects of non-verbal and Paralinguistic language skills will be addressed.