Language Activities Resource Kit - Second Edition (LARK-2), Richard A. Dressler. This second edition includes an updated collection of objects, photographs, illustrations, and print material for use in language therapy with adults who have moderate to severe language disorders. Materials geared towards therapy addressing right-hemisphere dysfunction. Particularly useful in speech production tasks aimed at improving intelligibility, enhancing comprehension and expression, and helping with functional communication.

LARK-2 draws from various approaches, methods, and techniques to restore clientss abilities to communicate effectively. The expanded print materials include vocabulary and question cards that have sentence closure phrases. It also includes 25 updated manipulative objects that are each associated with specific actions, making them helpful in treating patients with aphasia and other language deficiencies resulting from brain trauma or neurological disorders.

Manual workbook provides specific instructions for using LARK-2 in therapy sessions without subscribing to any particular theory or approach. This Manual/Workbook with engaging, reproducible activity and exercise sheets is now included in the kit. Manual and Workbook can be purchased separately.

Complete LARK-2 includes Manua/Workbook, 2 each of 25 objects, 200 cards and sturdy storage box.

LARK-2 CD, Joe Matesich and Richard Dressler The colorful visual stimuli and auditory cues in this software allow clients to extend therapy time either in a clinical setting or independently at home. Used in conjunction with the LARK-2 Kit, it offers various selection of activities aimed at improving intelligibility. Program automatically adjusts levels of difficulty based on client responses. Very user friendly. Easy clinician set-up and results recorded. Requires Windows® 96 or later. Manual/Workbook can be purchased separately. Disc sold separately.