I have been performing early childhood assessments for the last decade and particularly over the last 5 years have encountered more nonverbal children between the ages of 3-5 than I have in my previous 5 years of therapy. I wonder if there is a trend in the severity of disabilities we are able to diagnose […]
I saw these cute spring colored pencils from Creative Clips clip art and immediately thought of a sequencing activity I could make for my kiddos. Many of my young language delayed children struggle with retelling stories so I begin by teaching them ways to “sequence” everyday activities into 3 steps (modeling a beginning, middle and […]
It’s Spring and I think it’s time for some cute spring speech and language freebies! How about some a semantics game? I made this Rainy Day synonym game for my language kids. You can match up the synonyms, or have the students come up with their own. There are also points cards in there (great […]
A few weeks ago a brilliant follower on my FB page (you know who you are) commented on a story about my son and she gave me a great idea! Why not make a transportation themed book that imitates a much loved children’s book that is repetitive and rhythmic in nature? At that moment, Blue Car, […]
Last week I talked about the steps I use to teach PK kiddos how to understand analogies by focusing on understanding relationships between objects. Today I’d like to just write the several ideas I have done with PK kiddos that have worked to teach them how to understand categories of objects! If you have other […]
Boarder: From the Pond @ http://frompond.blogspot.com When I first started working with preschoolers I thought it was bit crazy to think of teaching analogies to 4 year olds. But after thinking about it, I realized that analogies are just about understanding relationships between two objects. So here are my tried and true steps to teaching […]
In honor of this weeks giveaway Baby Jaimie Goes to the Hospital (you still have until midnight Thursday to enter), I thought an inferencing activity about medicine might be in order! “Sick” of Inferencing is a game packet that consists of 6 pages of inferencing questions:* 2 pages about medical personnel* 2 pages devoted to medical supplies* 2 pages of higher […]
Data Collection is probably the most difficult thing to master when participating in pretend play with our clients/students/children. How can we PROVE that progress has been made? **Picture courtesy of onestepahead.com** Here are a few things we need to think about first: 1. Baseline skills: the most imporant thing to do prior to determining appropriate […]
Pretend play is crucial for a child’s cognitive, communication and social development. But how can we as SLPs and parents use this activity to target specific language goals? There are a few rules to follow when using pretend play to target specific goals: 1. Choose interesting materials: If your child is not interested in the materials you […]
I was at the Dollar Tree in early September and look at what I found?!! Some great Halloween/ dress up goodies for…well you guessed it, $1 a piece! Look at the wonderful pretend play outfits I found for a total of $6 (plus tax)! Pretend play is sometimes overlooked in the Speech Pathology world because we are trained to “make the […]
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