The Differential Processing Training Program - Linguist from PRO-ED is a comprehensive tool designed to help individuals with language processing difficulties improve their ability to differentiate sounds, understand word meanings, and enhance overall linguistic comprehension. This program is an ideal resource for speech-language pathologists, educators, and parents who are working with children or adults who face challenges with language processing, including those with auditory processing disorders or language delays. The structured exercises, strategies, and activities promote stronger auditory discrimination, better vocabulary development, and clearer understanding of language cues.
Each one-page activity has a clear, measurable goal and a performance grid for easy measurement, identification of error patterns, and quick documentation of progress. The lessons are grouped into three skill areas:
Word Relationships
Associations: recognize and explain associations; generate associated words
Comparisons: identify and explain similarities and differences
Synonyms : identify, generate, and compare synonyms
Antonyms: recognize and generate antonyms
Multiple Meaning Words: identify, explain, and define multiple: meaning words
Similes: identify similar characteristics, identify items by characteristics, complete and generate similes
Prosodic Interpretation
Emotions: recognize and infer emotions and identify emotional intonation
Sentence Intonation: recognize intonation, infer sentence meaning from intonation, use intonation appropriately
Stress and Rhythm: discriminate syllable and word stress and rhythm, interpret changes in stress and rhythm
Language Organization
Convergent Naming: identify objects from clues, discriminate and identify categories, identify commonalities among objects
Divergent Naming: name category members by function, parts, and attributes; complete analogies
Feature Description: describe objects by attributes, parts, and function; generate effective clues about objects
Features:
Focuses on improving auditory discrimination and language processing.
Provides exercises that train individuals to differentiate sounds and word meanings.
Structured activities for gradual progression from basic to more complex tasks.
Suitable for individuals with language delays, auditory processing disorders, and other communication difficulties.
Designed for both individual and group therapy settings.
Includes visual aids, worksheets, and instructional guides for ease of use.
