Communicating partners : 30 years of building responsive relationships with late-talking children including autism, Asperger's syndrome (ASD), Down syndrome, and typical development developmental guides for professionals and parents / James D. MacDonald.

Communicating Partners, the result of over thirty years of clinical practice and research work with pre-verbal and verbal children with language delays, offers an innovative approach to working with late talking children that focuses on developing relationships through mutual understanding. Providin...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: MacDonald, James D. (James David), 1940-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, ©2004.
Edition:1st American pbk. ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Communicating Partners; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Introduction to the Model; 1 The 30-Year Journey with 1000 Children: How Communicating Partners Came About; 2 Guiding Principles; 3 Key Features of Communicating Partners and Contrasts with Traditional Approaches to Autism and Other Language Disorders; 4 Examples of Children Studied for this Book; 5 Theoretical Foundations for Communicating Partners; 6 Basic Components of Communicating Partners: Five Developmental Stages and Five Relationship Strategies; Part 2 Five Stages of Communication.