Language Activities Resource Kit, 2nd Ed. (LARK-2)

Language Activities Resource Kit, 2nd Ed. (LARK-2), by Richard A. Dressler, draws from various approaches, methods, and techniques to restore clients' abilities to communicate effectively. Second edition includes an updated collection of objects, photographs, illustrations, and print material for use in language therapy with adults who have moderate to severe language disorders. Materials geared towards therapy addressing right-hemisphere dysfunction. Particularly useful in speech production tasks aimed at improving intelligibility, enhancing comprehension and expression, and helping with functional communication. The expanded print materials include vocabulary and question cards that have sentence closure phrases. It also includes 25 updated manipulative objects that are each associated with specific actions, making them helpful in treating patients with aphasia and other language deficiencies resulting from brain trauma or neurological disorders. Manual/workbook features engaging, reproducible activity and exercise sheets and provides specific instructions for using LARK-2 in therapy sessions without subscribing to any particular theory or approach.

Includes manual/workbook, two each of 25 objects, 200 cards, and a sturdy storage box. Manual/Workbook also sold separately.