Building Language Using Lego Bricks ─ A Practical Guide

Ralph and Rochester read articles about using the small plastic building blocks to teach young people with autism spectrum disorder how to use language, and started experimenting with sessions for the young people they work with. Here they share what they have learned during several years to help professionals and parents to set up and run their own sessions. They cover what autism and language impairment are, building language using LEGO blocks and LEGO therapy, aims, why building language using LEGO bricks works, starting off, progressing skills, guidelines for setting up and running sessions, measuring outcomes, and examples of cases. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Dawn Ralph gained her Speech Pathology & Therapy degree from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in 1985 and has worked as a paediatric speech and language therapist ever since. She has worked in a variety of settings from a paediatric brain injury unit to both specialist and mainstream schools. Jacqui Rochester has been working with SEN children for over sixteen years. In 2014 she gained her Bachelor of Philosophy in Special Education: Autism (Children) from the University of Birmingham's Autism Centre for Education and Research. Both Dawn and Jacqui run Building Language using LEGOR Bricks workshops for schools and training for professionals.