Children with Developmental Disabilities from Birth to Adolescence

Edited by Howard Goldstein, Ph.D., Louise A. Kaczmarek, Ph.D., & Kristina M. English, Ph.D.

Social and communication skills are reciprocal; improving one triggers the development of the other. In this new text, you'll explore the complex connection between social and communication skills and learn to apply the latest research on planning social-communication interventions for children with developmental disabilities.

Expert contributors investigate the research on social and communication development and the empirical support for a range of innovative approaches to assessment and intervention across four age groups — from birth to adolescence. Companion chapters bring to life these creative research-based strategies with practical case studies. Assessment and intervention techniques you'll uncover include

• "notice and nurture" scaffolding approaches for infants and toddlers
  
  
• steps to promoting child-child social interactions for preschoolers
  
  
• naturalistic teaching approaches and peer network strategies for school-age children
  
  
• tactics for improving the quality of social relationships for adolescents

The case studies address children with:

• autism
• cerebral palsy
• communication delays
• challenging behavior
• mental retardation
• hearing impairment
• and more

(A volume in the Communication and Language Intervention Series.)

Series Preface
Editorial Advisory Board
Contributors
Volume Preface
Acknowledgments

I. Bases and Models of Developing Social Skills
Howard Goldstein

1. Social Interaction and Models of Friendship Development
   Howard Goldstein and Lindee Morgan
   
   
2. Linguistic Influences on Social Interaction
   Leonard Abbeduto and Katherine Short-Meyerson
   
   
3. Assessment of Social-Communicative Competence: An Interdisciplinary Model
   Louise A. Kaczmarek

II. Promoting Social-Communication from Infancy through the School Years
Kristina M. English

4. Promoting Social-Communicative Development in Infants and Toddlers
   Steven F. Warren, Paul J. Yoder, and Shirley V. Leew
   
   
5. Infants and Toddlers: Putting Research into Practice
   Shirley V. Leew, Steven F. Warren and Paul J. Yoder
   
   
6. Promoting Peer-Related Social-Communicative Competence in Preschool Children
   William H. Brown and Maureen A. Conroy
   
   
7. Preschool Children: Putting Research into Practice
   Maureen A. Conroy and William H. Brown
   
   
8. Social-Communicative Strategies for School-Age Children
   Debra M. Kamps, Tammy Kravits, and Michelle Ross
   
   
9. School-Age Children: Putting Research into Practice
   Debra M. Kamps, Adriana Gonzalez Lopez, and Christine Golden
   
   
10. Promoting Social-Communicative Interactions in Adolescents
    Craig H. Kennedy
    
    
11. Adolescents: Putting Research into Practice
    Lisa Sharon Cushing and Craig H. Kennedy
    
    
12. Relationships between Social-Communicative Skills and Life Achievements
    Charles R. Greenwood, Dale Walker, and Cheryl A. Utley

Author Index
Subject Index