Prosody Intervention for High-Functioning Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Enhancing Communication and Social Engagement Through Voice, Rhythm, and Pitch

By: Michelle Dunn, Larry Harris, Julia Dunn (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 13 February 2017 | Edition Number 1

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Providing lessons for prosody intervention in high-functioning adolescents and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), this book helps to develop verbal and nonverbal skills to aid their transition into adulthood through a program of evidence-based lessons and resources. The authors offer a complete curriculum of lessons taking student from self-calming to fluency and conversational skills and thereby enhancing their communication skills and conversational competence, skills that are essential for the ability to get on in adult life, for example in the context of looking for a job.

The curriculum includes lesson plans, handouts and homework, and builds on some of the characteristic traits of high-functioning autism, for example by setting up sets of rules for clarity.

The program has been successfully used by the authors in their work with people on the autism spectrum and will be a life-changing resource for professionals as well as for parents and people on the autism spectrum wanting to improve their ability to communicate well.

About the Author

Dr Michelle Dunn is the Director of the Montefiore Autism Center, and Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Michelle is the author of S.O.S.: Social Skills in our Schools: A Social Skills program for children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders and their typical peers.

Larry Harris is a former NFL American Football player turned opera singer. He became a research assistant and vocal therapist at the Montefiore Center for Autism and Developmental Language Disorders in 2012. Larry uses his experience in both sport and music to help young people understand the mechanics of their voices.

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This is an absolutely wonderful and quite unique book for teaching skills in an area that is almost universal in autism: that of prosodic and related deficits. As pointed out early in the book, abnormal prosody gives 'a first impression of oddness' and interferes with ongoing social relationships. This readable, fascinating, and explicit book gives very specific lessons in all areas of what we usually include in 'prosody' (pacing, volume, pitch changes, word stressing), as well as in related pragmatic areas that are almost universally deficient in autism (conversing, narrating, gesture, eye contact, small talk, giving instructions). Lessons are spelled out in hierarchical fashion, and are detailed and explicit enough to be implemented by a variety of professionals (speech/language therapists, psychologists, teachers, behavior therapists). The authors also provide a clear and easy to use assessment tool for rating aspects of prosody, that does not require technical linguistic expertise, and which I intend to adopt for all the individuals I assess. Finally, the clinical and vocal expertise of these two authors (Dr. Dunn is a neuropsychologist specializing in autism and Mr. Harris is an opera singer) is very obvious in how they approach the whole endeavor, that is, by working first on helping the learner to be calm and reduce tension (which makes adjusting muscles easier and helps the learner to be ready to attend and learn). The intervention program in this book could change the social lives of many individuals with autism, which in turn could improve their academic attainments, vocational prospects and lifelong emotional fulfillment.

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