Using the ARM (Adult child relationship Map) to design treatment programs.

1. Building and interactive life
2. Building a nonverbal communicative life
3. Building a social life with language
4. Building a conversational life
5. Building a civil and socially appropriate life.

Special populations Applications of Communicating Partners to the following populations.

Special problems and particular foci of treatment.

1. Childhood autism- preverbal
2. Childhood autism -verbal
3. Aspergers syndrome
4. Down syndrome and other several oral motor concerns
5. Behavioral disorders
6. Late-talking children with otherwise typical development

C. Tools for building a daily Interactive life

• The I-Map: a practical guide for learning to communicate in daily routines.
• Conversation routines: practical models for preverbal and verbal children
• Daily activity diaries for preverbal and verbal children

D. Live discussions on analyses of video taped interactions with a variety of children.

E. Making classrooms more social and communicative. Establishing 'conversation routines' as the key to a curriculum.