Resources for Professionals

 Books authored by Phyllis Kupperman, M.A., CCC-SLP

The Source® for Intervention in Autism Spectrum    Disorders

Ages: 3-Adult Grades: PreK-Adult

Learn more about the complexities of autism spectrum disorders in children and young adults from a leading SLP in this field. Phyllis Kupperman imparts her vast knowledge of co-morbid conditions, learning styles, language-learning, social learning, and Theory of Mind, and shows how to develop customized strategies for intervention.  

Because a person never "leaves" the autism spectrum, this book gives you hundreds of practical, scientifically-based suggestions for dealing with toddlers, children, teens, and adults. General and specific tactics "grow" with the person on the spectrum so that learning and communication are constantly taught . . . a huge comfort to the person with autism and her family.  You'll also get specific strategies for social development, expressive and receptive language, reading comprehension, classroom behavior, transitioning, and independent living.  

 Go to http://www.linguisystems.com/itemdetail.php?id=10534 to learn more and order your copy.

The Reading Comprehension Kit for Hyperlexia and Autism Level 2

Ages: 7-12 Grades: 2-7

This kit uses NINE evidence-based strategies to improve reading comprehension in children with hyperlexia and ASD: priming, accessing prior knowledge, story analysis and summary, planned redundancy, cloze sentences, phrase and sentence strips, pronoun referent practice, vocabulary training, and visualizing.

Each of the six units in this kit contains two stories – one written at the first- to second-grade level and one written at the second- through fourth-grade level.  There are three types of stories included in the kit:   

Realistic fiction—Stories depict situations and characters that may be somewhat familiar to the reader. 

Fantasy—Stories gently introduce talking animals, and the reader is required to accept situations that are not real. 

Narrative non-fiction— Factual material is embedded within a fictional narrative.  The characters depict how children may record observations and organize factual information.   

Each story has an illustration of every story page, an illustrated vocabulary page, and as many as 11 learning opportunities to facilitate comprehension.   Because children with ASD often have difficulty formulating answers on their own or physically writing answers in the blanks, six of the activities include answers written on durable, reusable phrase and sentence strips (491 total strips).  The strips provide a multiple-choice format, and the physical act of picking up the strip and placing it on the worksheet helps students focus on the task. 

Go to http://www.linguisystems.com/itemdetail.php?id=10658 to learn more and order your copy.