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Pocket Adult Life: Colorcards

Series: Colorcards
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Pocket Adult Life: Colorcards offers 40 photographic flashcards depicting common daily living activities. These images cover household tasks, personal hygiene, outings, financial activities, and home life, supporting communication and vocabulary development for older adults with communication difficulties.
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Designed for professionals and carers supporting older adults, particularly in educational or therapy settings. Not intended as a toy and should be used under adult supervision.

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Includes photographic flashcards that provide images of 40 of the most common activities for daily living. Useful for professionals and carers working with older adults with communication difficulties, these cards are a tool to aid communication; develop vocabulary; initiate conversation and discussion; and to encourage independence.

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For a comprehensive series of daily living activities, these photographic flashcards provide clear and appealing images of 40 of the most common activities for daily living. Essential for all professionals and carers working with older adults with communication difficulties, these cards are a flexible tool to aid communication, develop vocabulary, initiate conversation and discussion, and encourage independence.

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Household chores (e.g., vacuuming/dusting, making the beds, ironing, washing up, doing the laundry); personal hygiene (e.g., bathing, cleaning teeth, dressing, going to the toilet, getting a haircut); out and about (e.g., shopping, driving, walking, riding a scooter, catching a bus); financial (e.g., collecting pension, paying for items, paying bills, writing a cheque); and, at home (e.g., making tea, telephoning, making a sandwich, preparing dinner, sleeping, getting out of bed).

Intended for use in educational settings and/or therapy contexts under the supervision of an adult. This is not a toy.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780863885877

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Cards

Date Published: 12 October 2006

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Speechmark Publishing Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 82.0mm

Height: 125.0mm

Weight: 207g

Pages: 48

About the Author

Produced by Speechmark, ColorCards are a hugely adaptable teaching tool designed to help develop both language and social skills. Real objects, people, situations and activities are shown on the photographs to provide you with creative and highly visual stimulus material.

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