Building Language Using LEGO Bricks

by Dawn Ralph, Jacqui Rochester, Georgina Gómez de la Cuesta (Foreword)

Building Language using LEGO® Bricks is a flexible and powerful intervention tool designed to aid children with severe receptive and expressive language disorders, often related to autism and other special educational needs. This practical manual equips you for setting up and adapting your own successful sessions. Downloadable resources enable you to chart progress in the following key
- The use of receptive and expressive language
- The use and understanding of challenging concepts
- Joint attention
- Social communication Help children with complex needs to communicate with this unique tool, derived from the highly effective LEGO®-Based Therapy.

152 pages, Paperback

Published August 18, 2016

Reviews

[Elizabeth Ives · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is indeed a “practical guide”. The authors provide foundational information about autism and speech and language development and tie it to their use of LEGO barrier games to teach the meaning, structure and social use of spoken language.

The chapters include detailed instructions for assessing concepts and skills to target, selecting starting levels, structuring sessions, using prompts and visual supports, minimizing interfering behaviors and tracking progress.

The authors provide clear detailed steps to teach language via LEGO barrier activities while describing therapy formats and techniques that are valuable assets in many communication interventions with autistic children.