Preface

About This Book

Chapter 1: Why Doesn't He Talk to Us?

Chapter 2: What Are Scripts? What Is Script Fading?

Chapter 3: Scripts, Script Fading, and Activity Schedules

Chapter 4: Building Prerequisite Skills: Scripts for Children Who Do Not Yet Talk
Why Use Scripts with Nonverbal Children?
Making Social Interaction Fun
Pairing Pictures, Words, and Objects or Activities
Creating Helpful Language Environments
Not All Activities Are Social

Chapter 5: Preparing to Teach
Observe Preferences
Select Scripts
Record the Scripts
Enlist the Help of Two Adults
Construct an Activity Schedule

Chapter 6: Teaching Children to Use Scripts:
Prompters and Conversation Partners
How to Be an Effective Prompter
Fading Prompts
How to Be a Good Conversation Partner
Dealing with Errors
Measuring Progress
What's Next?

Chapter 7: Scripts for Children Who Say Words or Phrases
Initiating Conversation with a Word or Phrase
An Additional Measure of Progress
What If a Child Doesn't Say the Scripts?
Fading Audiotaped Scripts

Chapter 8: Measuring Scripted and Unscripted Interaction
New Definitions of Interaction
Observing, Scoring, and Graphing Scripted and Unscripted Interaction
The Importance of Two Observers

Chapter 9: More Scripts and More Interaction Opportunities
Talking about Reward Activities
Talking about Play Activities
Talking about Home-Living Activities
Extending Conversation
When Are Scripts Faded?

Chapter 10: Scripts for Beginning Readers
Fading Pictures and Audiotapes
Talk Books
What to Do When Conversation Fails

Chapter 11: Scripts for More Accomplished Readers
Scripts about Past and Future Activities
Photo Albums and Scrapbooks
Using the Telephone
More about Fading Written Scripts
Don't Forget Rewards!

Chapter 12: Measuring More Complex Conversation
Defining Interaction
Types of Interaction

Chapter 13: Using Scripts to Promote Peer Interaction
Peer Tutoring
Interaction with Siblings
Peer Interaction in Groups

Chapter 14: Teaching Young People to Create Their Own Scripts
Using Topic Lists
Writing Own Scripts

Chapter 15: Scripts for Nonreaders and People with Severe Disabilities
Silent Partners
Pictures as Cues for Conversation

Chapter 16: Making It Work
Selecting Scripts
Modeling Conversation
Fading Prompts
Programming Generalized Interaction Skills

Chapter 17: Solving Problems

Appendix A: Audio Card Readers

Appendix B: Data Sheet Used to Measure the Progress Of a Child Who Is Not-Yet-Verbal

Appendix C: Daily Individual Progress Report Chart for a Child Who Is Not-Yet-Verbal

Appendix D: Data Sheet Used to Measure the Progress of a Child Who Says Words or Phrases

Appendix E: Daily Individual Progress Report Chart for a Child Who Says Words or Phrases

Appendix F: Data Sheet for Scoring Scripted and Unscripted Interaction

Appendix G: Data Sheet for a Child Who Uses Sentences

Appendix H: Button-Activated Voice Recorders

Appendix I: Hand Counter

Appendix J: Materials Needed for Script-Fading Programs

References

Glossary

Index