WALC 8: Word Finding

WALC 8 Word Finding - Book

Ages: 16–Adults

Help clients meet their goals for mid- to high-level complexity word retrieval. This book offers plenty of strategies and repetition to meet diverse client needs.

Written in the best-selling format of the Workbook of Activities for Language and Cognition series, these activities have:

• easy-to-read format
• simple, concise language
• consistent progression of complexity within and between tasks
• application to a wide range of acquired cognitive-language disorders

These ready-to-use activities tap into many facets of cognitive-linguistic processing that contribute to word retrieval:

• vocabulary
• problem solving
• convergent thinking
• thought flexibility
• general knowledge
• reasoning
• deduction
• divergent thinking
• logic
• creativity

The activities are organized into five skill areas:

• Answering Questions—general information questions require short-answer responses
• Building Categorization Skills—name items by category and add items to a category
• Using Word Relationships—work with opposites, synonyms, and homonyms
• Using Word Strategies—variety of approaches to stimulate word retrieval: use word puzzles, chaining, letter and syllable cues, definitions, and rhymes.
• Naming and Selecting Pictures—name pictures and select pictures by the letter they begin with