Colorcards
About the Book Series
This bestselling series contains inspiring, professional materials designed to help develop both language and social skills. Uniquely created for use by professionals including speech and language therapists and educators, colorcards® are designed to support students of all ages and abilities.
Each box comes with an instruction booklet and flashcards which are designed to:
- Improve attention, language and observation skills, including listening, understanding, vocabulary, writing skills, expressive language, auditory memory, sequencing, turn-taking, classification, logical thought and problem solving
- Encourage and inspire visual and kinaesthetic learners
- Develop emotional literacy
- Create a five minute warmer or filler, or form the main part of a session
The images of real objects, people, situations and activities are chosen and photographed with great care to maximise the educational benefit for students from early years through mainstream education and special education, to adult learning and ESOL.
Social Behaviour: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
January 01, 1999
This title features 44 cards on skills for daily living. These full-colour cards illustrate a variety of familiar situations and activities that can be used with older chidren and adults who require intervention in the area of appropriate social behaviour. Some cards show a good understanding of ...
Time Sequencing: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
January 01, 1999
This beautiful set of cards carefully depicts the passing of time to aid an understanding of order and direction. They can be used in many environments and the accompanying booklet includes ideas and activities for using the cards. The cards are varied in content - for example: Times of the day - ...
Pocket Adult Life: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
January 01, 1998
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 ...
What are They Thinking?: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
November 30, 1997
This is an inspiring and creative resource for developing empathy, understanding feelings and recognising emotions. Designed to stimulate animated discussion, these imaginative photocards provide an innovative way of initiating conversation with individuals and groups. They are also useful for ...
Early Sequences: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
September 30, 1997
These pocket sized sets of flashcards - comparable in size and quality to a pack of playing cards, are designed to support teaching and therapeutic input in the clinic, school and home. They can be used for an engaging introduction to sequencing. You can demonstrate simple three step sequentially ...
Expressive Verbs: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
June 01, 1997
This title offers 48 cards illustrating expressions with intrinsic meanings. This is a collection of bold, vibrant and often humorous photocards that illustrate actions and expressions implying a range of states, reactions, intentions and emotions, showing how expressions and actions are used to ...
Cause and Effect: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
June 01, 1996
This title offers 48 cards illustrating 2-step sequences of day-to-day events. Designed to help develop logical and critical thinking skills, this set will also help with verbal reasoning, as well as encourage the use and practice of questioning. It contains 24 sequenced pairs that illustrate how '...
Decisions / Personal Safety - Indoors: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
June 01, 1992
Decisions/Personal Safety Colorcards Indoors. Indoor activities, situations and objects requiring safe decision making. This set of Colorcards illustrates a variety of everyday activities, situations and objects encountered that can easily cause danger and mishap if not considered as a potential ...
Problem Solving: Colorcards
1st Edition
By Speechmark
June 01, 1990
This title offers illustrating problems and solutions. Illustrating problems and two possible ways of solving them, this pack of 48 cards is ideal for use in the classroom or clinic with children and adults of all ages. There are three cards in each sequence; the first shows the problem and the ...