Autism Language Therapies

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"By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life." -Jean Baptiste Girard

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GrammarTrainer Level I

Before purchasing, try the GrammarTrainerI Demo

GrammarTrainer1 download -- $60

GrammarTrainer1 CD -- $65 plus $5 for shipping and handling

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GrammarTrainer1 consists of 33 lessons, and uses shapes, colors, and simple text to teach:

  1. How to form singular versus
  2. How to combine articles and adjectives with nouns
  3. The different forms of the verb to be or to have (is versus are; has versus have)
  4. Simple prepositional phrases (on the square, in the circle, etc.)
  5. How to use number words and the word not in sentences
  6. Complex adjectives like bigger than and biggest
  7. How to join phrases and sentences with and
  8. The pronouns it and they
  9. Possessive phrases, like the triangle’s dots or the square’s stripes
  10. Complex phrases like more triangles than squares
  11. Quantifiers like many, most,few, all, some, none, only, except, and neither
  12. How to ask a variety of questions
    1. yes-no questions
    2. what questions
    3. where questions
    4. which questions
    5. how many questions

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By the final lessons of GrammarTrainer1 your child combines all these skills to discriminate among many different types of questions, produce quite long and complex responses, and formulate a wide variety of questions on his own.

GrammarTrainer Level II

Before purchasing, try the GrammarTrainerII Demo

GrammarTrainer2 download -- $60

GrammarTrainer2 CD -- $65.00 plus $5 for shipping and handling

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GrammarTrainer2 consists of 30 lessons, and uses text and illustrations to teach:

  1. past, present and future tenses.
  2. negated expressions like doesn't, don't, didn't, and won't
  3. subjects, objects and indirect objects
  4. pronouns: he, she, it, they, him, her
  5. time expressions like today, tomorrow, yesterday, two days ago, in hours, on weekdays
  6. basic words for different facial expressions (happy, sad, angry, scared, worried)
  7. possessive nouns and pronouns: the girl's, the boy's, his, her, their
  8. complex prepositions as in The boy is taking the hat out from behind the box.
  9. relative clauses like the boy who is sleeping on the floor and the chair that the girl is sitting in.
  10. practice answering what, which, and who questions
  11. how to answer how questions with by phrases as in The girl got from the house to the tree by swimming.
  12. how to answer why questions with because clauses as in The boy is holding an umbrella because it's raining.

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By the final lessons of GrammarTrainer2 your child combines all these skills to discriminate among most types of types of complex questions and produce even longer and more complex responses.

GrammarTrainer Level III

Before purchasing, try the GrammarTrainerIII Demo

GrammarTrainer3 download -- $60

GrammarTrainer3 CD -- $65 plus $5 for shipping and handling

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GrammarTrainer3 consists of 41 lessons, and uses text and illustrations to teach:

  1. how to ask a variety of complex questions, including
    1. yes/no questions
    2. who questions
    3. what questions
    4. where questions
    5. which questions
    6. why questions
  2. passive sentences like The boy was kissed by the girl.
  3. compound verb tenses as in In three hours the boy will have swum.
  4. subordinate clauses as in The girl was swimming while the boy was reading.
  5. embedded clauses as in The boy wants the girl to give him an apple.
  6. sentences with verbs of saying as in The girl said that she was hungry.
  7. comparative sentences like The more presents the boy has, the more excited he gets.
  8. if-then sentences as in If the girl says "boo" then the boy will feel scared.
  9. more time expressions: before, after, while, until
  10. how to calculate first, second, and third person pronouns from different frames of reference
    1. I, me
    2. we, us
    3. you, your
    4. he/him/his, she/her, they/them

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By the final lessons of GrammarTrainer3 your child combines all these skills to answer of variety of highly complex questions, produce even longer and more complex responses, and formulate a variety of complex questions on his own.

GrammarTrainer Level IV

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GrammarTrainer4 download -- $60

GrammarTrainer4 CD -- $65 plus $5 for shipping and handling

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GrammarTrainer4 consists of 16 lessons, and uses text and illustrations to teach:

  1. how to calculate direct quotes from reported speech
    1. in statements: e.g., "I want you to tie your shoes." from He said that he wants me to tie his shoes.
    2. in requests: e.g., "Tie your shoes." from She told you to tie your shoes.
    3. in questions: e.g., "Whose shoes do you want me to tie?" from He asked me whose shoes I want him to tie.
  2. how to calculate reported speech from direct quotes
    1. in statements: e.g., He said that he wants me to tie his shoes from "I want you to tie your shoes."
    2. in requests: e.g., She told you to tie your shoes from "Tie your shoes."
    3. in questions: e.g., He asked me whose shoes I want him to tie from "Whose shoes do you want me to tie?"
  3. how to calculate first, second, and third person pronouns from different frames of reference
    1. I, me, my
    2. we, us, our
    3. you, your
    4. he/him/his, she/her, they/them/their

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By the time your child completes the final lesson of GrammarTrainer4, he or she has overcome a core deficit of autism: calculating who a speaker is talking to, who the speaker is referring to, which pronouns the speaker should use, and which pronouns other people should use in reporting what the speaker is saying.