1999 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 372-377
The‹S-S Method›is a comprehensive language assessment and intervention program. Its characteristics are as follows. (1) When designing intervention strategies and procedures, three dimensions of language behavior-the sign-significate relations, communication attitude, and basic processes that support language behavior-have to be consid-ered. (2) The objectives and course of the training program are determined according to the results of the ‹S-S Method› assessment. (3) Some small steps are available for connecting signs with concepts of objects and situations. In this article, a program for facilitating development of language comprehension and an elementary question-answer intervention approach were described. Linguistic concepts such as “motivation-arbitrariness”, “distin-ctiveness”, “syntagmatic-paradigmatic”were suggested by use of the program. Moreover, some clinical findings on level of language comprehension and skill in speech production, were described.
