Re: Building Conversational Skills (are there good drills or instructional methods?)

February 23, 2002

Get a lnaguage master and use a script fading procedure combinedwith

incidental teeaching.

Joe

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Rose Alford wrote:

> Dear Verbal Behavior Experts,

>

> This is a biggie for me: I really want to know some specific drills (tell

> me the gory details on how to implement) on how to engage my son (8-years

> old, advanced learner according to ABLLS) in more " normal looking "

> conversation (no more drills with tedious and rote responses). Anyone have

> some magic tricks here?

>

> No more showing him a picture of something and saying " tell me about

> (what's in the picture " ) (how boring can it get?) My son is getting so

> bored I am surprised he hasn't killed anyone yet.

>

> I need some good ideas to get him to talk about things, and maybe how to

> lead him in a conversation that forces him to think about how to

> answer. Do you know what I mean by this? I want a nice ongoing

> conversation about something, not just rote responses. (I know Carbone

> uses videos for this, but, with my son, it will not work as videos are too

> over-stimulating for him to answer any questions about them.)

>

> Thanks for any ideas that you can supply me with.

>

> Rose

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February 23, 2002

Have him create five ajatives from the picture and then let him tell you a

story aboput anything htat he wants, jsut he has to use each of the

adjectives in teh story.

joe