Creating Complex Sentence Competence: Evidence-Based Treatment To Improve Receptive and Expressive Language Skills

Course overview

Individuals with language disorders often demonstrate difficulty understanding and producing complex sentence structures. Children who enter kindergarten unable to understand and produce complex sentences lack the skills needed to fully participate in academic instruction and social discourse with peers. In this course, participants will be provided with background needed to identify and form complex sentence stimuli for therapy. Tools and techniques for assessment to identify client strengths and needs related to complex sentence forms will be shared. Evidence-based implicit and explicit treatment techniques to address complex sentence comprehension and expression in play, shared book reading, and curriculum-based activities with children at preschool through high school levels will be demonstrated.