For Oral Language Comprehension and Expression
By Nanci Bell and Christy Bonetti
The Talkies® program is the primer to the Visualizing and Verbalizing® program for students who need simpler, smaller steps o instruction to establish the imagery-language connection. The goal of Talkies® instruction is to develop mental imagery as a base for language comprehension and expression. Talkies® instruction may benefit students with prior third-party diagnoses of expressive language delays or autism spectrum disorders.
Talkies® instruction helps students:
- Bring nonverbal imagery to consciousness
- Establish the imagery-language connection
- Increase oral vocabulary
- Improve language comprehension and expression
Must-Have Materials:
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The Talkies® Kit
A must-have for Talkies® instruction, this kit provides materials designed to implement each task in a systematic way, optimizing program pacing, differentiation, and fidelity.
Must-Have Professional Development
A Genuine Lindamood-Bell® Workshop
All Talkies® materials are designed to be implemented by teachers and parents who have attended a Genuine Lindamood-Bell® Workshop, ensuring instructional quality and fidelity. For additional workshop and location information, please visit www.LindamoodBell.com or call 800-233-1819.
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The Picturing Vocabulary! Book helps build oral vocabulary, an important component in language communication, by stimulating and developing the imagery-language connection. Students can image and learn over 400 pictures, each representing a common noun or verb. The pictures are presented in categories so that the student can begin to see each word as part of a larger whole.
Track your student's progress as he or she images and learns 255 common nouns, each represented by a picture. The Picturing Vocabulary! Tracking Chart helps develop your student's oral vocabulary by encouraging speed and automaticity. This workbook presents words and their corresponding pictures in categories to help your student see each noun as part of a larger whole.
The Picturing Vocabulary! Cards box includes 255 pictures-concrete representations of words-perfect for developing and stimulating the imagery-language connection, as well as building receptive and expressive vocabulary. The card box contains color-coded dividers for eight different categories of words. Use the Picturing Vocabulary! Cards on their own or with the Picturing Vocabulary! Book and Tracking Chart.
