For those kiddos who are working on longer utterances (3-4 words) here is a "I see a _____" Halloween book that you can print and cut out for free! :-)
For those kiddos who are working on longer utterances (3-4 words) here is a "I see a _____" Halloween book that you can print and cut out for free! :-)
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I haven't been able to try this out personally but just read a wonderful review on this app, and the idea is brilliant! I work with many kids with Apraxia/Motor Planning difficulties and they often LOVE music but they are unable to sing along with the fast-paced songs. Here is an app that you can download on your iPhone or iPod and add your songs and it will SLOW down the music with supposedly no degradation to the quality of the music! What a fabulous idea! I often sing songs very slowly with these kiddos so they can start to follow along with the songs when they are on CD, and it always bugged me that kids songs on CD's are always SO fast paced. Music can really help develop language, so hopefully this might help a lot! Please check it out, and if you do, let me know how it works and how your little one responds!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slowtunes/id657117134?mt=8 Many kiddos with Autism have difficulty understanding emotions, both in themselves and in others. One of the first steps to working on emotions and emotion words are to develop a simple matching activity. This is one I am working on for a little guy who is also working on increasing his length of utterance, hence why I included sentences and not just the word. You can print out two copies of these pictures and glue 4 of the pictures onto cardstock or a file folder and then cut out the others to match them to. Talk about the feelings while doing the activity and make sure to point out their faces--what their mouths are doing, eyes, etc. A fun follow-up activity is to try and have the child make the faces and/or imitate you making the faces so they can see it and experience it in real life. I always pair the feeling word/phrase with the question, "How is she feeling?" so they can learn an accurate answer to that question so hopefully one day soon if you ask THEM that question they will be able to tell you how they are feeling! Most of the time in Early Intervention I work with kiddos on building vocabulary and expanding utterances and just working on overall language development. Sometimes, if a kiddo already has a great vocabulary or has made significant progress before they age out we start working on articulation and intelligibility. Here are some final /s/ sound puzzles I made for one of my kids. I print them out on cardstock and cut a puzzle shape in between the two parts of the word. Then we work on saying each part of the word, i.e. /moo/...../s/ as we push the two pieces together. We then work on decreasing the pause between the two parts of the word so we eventually get the initial part of the word blended with the target final sound, in this case /s/. The child has been working on /s/ in isolation and /s/ paired with a single vowel. Then we move onto combining them with simple words. I find that often children are more successful working with the target sound at the end of the word first before moving onto the initial position of the word. So, a few weeks ago one of my families asked me about PROMPT. This approach to helping a child to produce sounds is often used with children with Apraxia and Down Syndrome and many other speech disorders. I was doing some research on it because unfortunately it costs hundreds upon hundreds of dollars to get trained in PROMPT. Well I found this wonderful website that was done by a sister of a boy with Down Syndrome. She took pictures and added descriptions of eliciting every sound using PROMPT. This is a gold mine of information for free, so I thought I would share it in case anyone out there wanted to try this approach! Please checkout the website here! Thank you to gotdownsyndrome.blogspot.com for this wonderful information!
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