Clementine: The Communi-Cat, a Guide for Teaching Social Communication Skills

This book features a beautiful tricolor cat as well as two young children who demonstrate different facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice through photographs and descriptions. The descriptive text and humorous, colorful photographs of Clementine engage children between the ages of 4-8 in a manner that creates interest and an increased understanding of social language skills. This book provides a basic lesson in social language skill development that would be helpful to all children.

Clementine: The Communi-CAT also identifies a need in a growing population of children with autism spectrum disorders who have significant difficulty with interpersonal communication skills. While Clementine: The Communi-CAT is an educational tool that could be used to support and advocate for children with special needs, it is also a basic lesson in social communication that would benefit all children. Strong interpersonal communication skills are fundamental for building relationships and are directly related to a child's success in school, both academically and socially.

Clementine: The Communi-CAT, A Guide for Teaching Social Communication Skills is a traditional children's book as well as a textbook--a hybrid. The book is a wonderful resource for teachers and parents in general, because all children benefit from having strong social communication skills. Clementine: The Communi-CAT empowers a parent to advocate for their child by not only engaging their child, but by helping them to have better interpersonal communication skills. Important skills that would help a child to make a friend or not get into trouble at school for sounding rude, when they didn't mean to sound that way. A lesson that would improve overall interpersonal communication skills. This book will enable a parent to work with his or her child by walking them through a social communication lesson and giving ideas for further practice.

Clementine: The Communi-CAT, A Guide for Teaching Social Communication Skills is special, because it's a story, a communication lesson and a social communication activity book all in one. The level of interest and engagement it creates in children will help the lesson of using and understanding nonverbal language be more meaningful. Joint attention with children would be more easily maintained, due to the colorful, humorous photographs as well as the interactive nature of the book. Children will be enthusiastic and engaged while learning about nonverbal communication.