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"Paraprofessionals will learn: how to use naturally occurring classroom activities to support a child's ability to understand, learn and use language ; over 20 practical and immediately implementable strategies to support communication development ; ways to increase a student independence throughout the school day ; how to facilitate peer interactions ; how to use language strategies to mitigate challenging behaviors; techniques for speaking to a child that support the child's ability to learn language ; means of cueing for language and supporting a child to produce more language when communicating throughout the day ; increase awareness of children and adult communication styles. ... coach's guide comes with over 200 pages full of background information, additional examples and instructional tools for the course coach to reference. This resource has been designed to pair side-by-side with the powerpoint slides. ... participant workbooks include nearly 100 pages of course content, fill-in-the-blank and short answer responses to further paraprofessional learning and engagement during course implementation. These resources have been designed to pair with powerpoint slides and also serve as an additional reference resource for paraprofessionals outside of the instructional setting. Included with the workbook are pre and post unit assessments to track progress and fieldwork assignments to generalize strategies discussed to each paraprofessional's unique classroom environment."--Publisher's website