Order the Updated SKILL Manual — 4th Edition with New Online Digital Materials

I've been in love with this narrative program for years. It's my favorite narrative intervention program. The new pictures and digital materials just put the icing on the cake. Definitely worth the investment.

We have been implementing SKILL for several years district-wide with great success. We love the new SKILL-3 and its added features and materials. It is so reassuring as busy therapists to know we are providing contextualized, research-based, effective language intervention that directly targets core curriculum - with minimal prep time. We have found it to be far superior to older fragmented, decontextualized splinter skill approaches, which didn't tend to generalize or stick, resulting in less-effective therapy and frustrated kids and SLPs. We have also been thrilled with the unexpected positive treatment gains in related areas as a result of implementing narrative-based intervention: our students' writing, prosody, syntactic structures, vocabulary acquisition and retention, grammatical markers, and ability to engage in and remember longer and more complex narrative structures have all benefited greatly by learning cohesive language skills right in context. This framework highlights and reinforces the causal relationships between the story grammar elements, so students learn critical transferable skills like seeing patterns, making analogies and connections, and identifying sequential and causal relationships, all of which are essential to critical thinking skills across curricular subjects and life situations. This framework is supported by top-quality comprehension research, and yet is also very practical and easy to learn. Sandi Gillam has been extremely helpful and responsive in answering questions, helping with implementation, etc. as well which has been a huge benefit. As an SLP I always felt that when I pulled a student from their classroom setting, what I did should be at least as helpful as what they were missing out on, or they'd be even more behind when they went back. This approach gave me the confidence that I was really returning them to class better-equipped to access and participate in both their core curriculum and their daily interactions.

I am really impressed by what I have seen in regards to the book and the extra resources available after purchasing this book. By adding videos it helps to clearly see SKILL in action. I can’t wait to start using it. Lovely people to deal with, and I get the impression that if I have any problems that I will get a response quickly.

I love the new online material that is always available so that I am not ripping the pages out of the manual. I love that the instructions are easy to follow. The pictures are always fun and perfect for all of my students. I love that the lessons that be done one at a time if I have low time, or do several in a row! Also, having the goals for student IEP's based on the grade of the student is an amazing addition!

Excellent detailed manual. Well researched. Great resource. Only thing that seems to be missing is the video resources referred to in the manual.

The program is a systematic and detailed approach to support narrative language development. All of the components (with the exception of some partner story books) are included within this book. I appreciate that each step is laid out, with specific language to use and recommendations for modifications/additional practice. The materials do take a little bit of time to organize in a useful way, but it is worth it to do! The included CD-ROM has materials that can also be loaded onto an iPad, which is exceptionally helpful for me, as I travel between multiple locations. I cannot provide extensive information about its success in implementation but there is research to support it!