More Than Words/ Talkability

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Has anybody used either of these?

How useful did you feel they were?
Has anybody finished with theirs and would like to sell them on? they're not cheap to buy!

sorry can you explain what they are please

Sorry, I was a bit tired when I posted this last night!

Can't decide which is more apprpriate for my ds, I think his needs are somewhere in between the two, was a bit scared by the Amazon prices though!

here is the website, if you look at the tabs on the righthand side they are explicitly saying asd now, perhaps this is a new thing?

Anyway, think we're definitely going to go for it since nhs SALT has not been forthcoming so far!

In the UK you can get them new from

www.winslow-cat.com/cgi-bin/winslow.storefront

We're still using more than words - haven't looked at talkability. MTW worth looking at imo .

thanks for explaining, heard it talked about a lot on here

More than Words doesn't assume good language skills and has an introductory section aimed at helping you draw up a profile of your child's sensory needs. It is structured all the way from getting an interaction going with a child who doesn't respond much through to the "partner" stage where a child is starting to forge peer friendships but still struggles. To give you an idea of where it finishes, it describes a child who can use concepts like "tell"/"ask" ("I asked daddy where x is" - that sort of thing) as being at a very advanced partner stage.

"Talkability" assumes fairly good language skills - certainly some level of fluency in talking about the here and now. I wouldn't use it on a 3 year old with any language delay though it would be fine for an Aspergers-y 3-year old. Even when DS2 was younger though, I found it helpful to flick through because it gives you a trajectory into the future - shows you what you are aiming for.
"Takability" has a particularly useful chapter on guiding your child in understanding "theory of mind" stuff - understanding that people are pretending to be happy when they are really disappointed/understanding that other people can't see what you can see - that kind of thing. I like it because it breaks this down into little steps.

Can you order from the library? Others have done so.

Thanks lingle, will go with More than Words.

And great idea about the library I hadn't thought about that! thankyou both

They didn't have it at my library so they have ordered it for me. Will cost me £2.50 so a great saving there!

Thankyou so, so much for that idea, it just wouldn't have occurred to me, and I would have put off buying them due to cost

These sounds really good- will get onto my library too- thanks for the advice