play/cognitive language intervention

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> Here is a crude summary of the Westby play scale (Carol Westby Language,

> Speech and Hearing Services in Schools Vol XI, 154-168. July 1980)

Is this a journal, book, or what? I found this all really interesting.

Here's where we are. My daughter is 5.5, dx Asperger's. She has a lot of play

skills that she doesn't really generalize from the home. Since she was two,

she's done pretend play ( " I'm the Farmer in the Dell, " while dressed in overalls

and holding a cow, and no, this wasn't rote; putting jumprope on her head and

saying it was braids, etc.; she now sets up elaborate scenarios w/her animals,

usually modeled on something she's seen recently, e.g. acting

out a puppet show or concert). She doesn't do much collaborative play. I do

see problems with understanding " how " questions, sophisticated " why " ?s, cause

and effect, and TOM. We've been using the Howlin book, doing some of the

exercises.

We do not have a program set up in the home, though we're trying to get one

started (hopefully w/in the next few weeks). I'm not sure how high a priority

it is, since I think conversational turn-taking is more important.

Thinking out loud here, but thanks for posting about this.