I work with Jeffrey, and well my other two boys, on his therapy words daily. I also developed some flash cards out of cut out pictures from old magazines. I just try to make it a game. I was able to get some bingo chips and everytime they said the word correctly, they put a bingo chip on the card. I usually laid out about six cards at a time, then when they have said all the words correctly, they took turns picking up the chips with the "magic wand". It has really works. I also got some flash cards at my local dollar store with numbers,letters and other words. An another neat trick that I learned was while I was at my local Home Depot, I picked up some paint samples, you know the ones~on the little cards, and I use them to work with them on their colors. I have a whole shoe box filled with cards and I'm still making more. To me, a child will learn faster on what things are if they see the real thing instead of looking at a cartoon of it and for my boys, it really works. I had a hard time at first finding old magazines, but I picked some up at some local garage sales and I tell them what I'm using them for and usually they just let me have them but some charge me .10 a book. I usually stock up on index cards during back to school sales, and that's what I put the pictures on.
So, what do you use to help your child with his therapy words? Let's hear from all of you!!!!!!!
Get a clear plastic bin filled with a rainbow of foam packing peanuts.
Hidden among the packing peanuts are a series of objects that start with the letter "S" and another consonant.
Sitting down, have you children, dug their hands inside the foam peanuts, thrilled to find each new object. A tiny stop sign. A rubber snake. A star. A spoon. As they proudly retrieved each object, they became excited rather than frustrated about trying to say the words.
Locate your local big-box retailer and found a clear bin about the size of a tackle box for under five dollars and fill with the box with the packing peanuts.
Hid objects that start with the letter "S" or any letter,to reinforce his or herspeech therapy work. Hid magnetic letters and made a game of naming objects beginning with each letter they fished out.
For older kids, hid notes with activities earned for good behavior: video game or computer time, a bike ride with mom, or a trip to the library.
This fishing game is cheap, easy, and customizable — it's hard to imagine a bigger catch for both parents and kids.
I got this idea from my weekly newsletter: Family Fun Dream Team and I just had to pass it on!!!!!!
Every Child Deserves a Voice! (CASNA)
Jen
I've always just tried to integrat things she's working on with life. Like when she was working on her S-T blend ever stop sign we saw driving I pointed it out, and had her say it. she loved it and started pointing out stop signs before I could.
I've done that with lots of things, she doesn't even know we are working on speech. Another hard one for her was W so we got the movie sharlets web, and talked about spider WEBS. and then we went to the pool and talked about WATER. etc. really just integrated it into her every day life
I figure she gets enouph flash cards and structured exersises at speech (in the school year she gets speech 4 days a week, and 2 days in the summer) so at home it's more natuaral.
My son is two and 3/4s. What works well for us is to have my son fill-in-the-blanks in books we read. I will read... then stop and point to an object and wait for him to identify the object.
I also try to keep Paul away from electronic toys. We use puzzles, blocks, cars and anything that will capture his interest.
We also are making good progress with a core vocabulary book that focuses on just a few words with tons of repetition and in the back combining some of those words into pairs and one three word sentence.
One of my favorite websites for printables to use in speech practice at home and building an understanding of vocabulary is www.speakingofspeech.com
i take a pencil and make this like where you start at the outside of the circle and go into a curlycue going inword and then at the middle make a dot and the end of your line and start and the begining with the OOOOOO then when ou get to the dot tap it and make the T sound and it really works he is now connecting and including the t sound in oat which is a big step and he loves following the line with his finger as he says it and every time he gets one right we take a sticker and place it on the sticker board we get 5 words right and he gets to play 2 minutes on the computer and so on and so forth it seems to work for him
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when my son's therapists had him practicing sound production we played lots of game. i would get bored with just practicing the sounds/words day after day so imagine what he was going through.
go to a teachers supply store and buy blank dice or you can make some using other materials. add a letter to each side. roll the dice and allow them to choose a word that starts with that sounds-remembering that some letters share sounds.
make a blank game board. use the flash cards to travel around the board. we like to add other cards and play a version of sorry. if you have a scramble board, you can play a version of boggle jr where they spell the word that is on a card using the letter tiles saying the word as they build it. this helped my son recognize where our target sound was in a word. if you are creative, there are very few board that cant be modified to work on speech skills. we have converted uno, go fish, skipbo, monopoly, old maid, just about every game we have.
using the index cards, you can put them on the floor laid out like a game board. instead of using a small toy or token to move around the board, they can jump or walk from card to card as he says the word. i perfer to wear my son out for his afternoon nap so he jumps.
tape the index cards to the fridge and use magnetic darts. as he says a word, he throws a dart and tries to hit it. we started this one using full sheets of paper with one word written on them. that way he was sure to hit the target.
hide and seek...lay out a bunch of cards, some with his target sound, some without, and have him search for words that contain his target sound, saying them as he finds them. you can play memory this way havig him say each word.
i know we played more games, but since he doesn't work on target sounds in this fashion anymore, i dont remember them.
"B says buh! B says buh!
Every letter makes a sound
And B says buh!"
If a letter has 2 sounds, it makes both sounds:
"C says Kuh
And C says Ssss!
Every letter makes a sound
C says Kuh and Ssss!"
If you press the music note, it sings the alphabet song.
I pick out all the letters we're working on for the week in speech therapy, and group them so that they're easy to find and place in the phonics piece. The speech therapist thought it was the coolest thing!
http://www.leapfrog.com/en/learning_toys/fridgephonics.html
Quoting CathyMA:
My son is severely apraxic. We had 2 years of "traditional" speech therapy without much success. I started researching PROMPT and have found a PROMPT-trained therapist who has been working with us for 5 months. We now have a few word approximations and babbling that we have not had before. I would recommend seeing if there is a PROMPT therapist in your area. It has been the first thing that has helped us get sounds!
We have used PROMPT before and although it took A LONG time to get used to it-as it is pretty invasive-it WORKS! I also highly recommend this form of therapy!
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on Aug. 11, 2007 at 9:32 AM