Re: snowed in suggestions for therapy?

[Guest guest]

hi Kate

Any board game is an opportunity to work on speech.  my son loved the Clifford

the big red dog game.  Instead of dice, you pushed on cliffords dog house and

he would bark how many spaces you needed to go.  When it was his turn, i'd ask

" what do you have to push? " and he'd say " house " (or his version of it!)  i'd

ask what color bone he picked, or what color did i pick ect ect.  the board

games really do help with opportunities to ask them questions.  I kept in mind

that any attempt was great and we'd shout and cheer whenever he really made a

good attempt at a word.  Love board games for speech!

On days we couldn't get out because of snow, we'd sit at the window and try to

guess what color car would drive by next. But that was when we were really

bored! Or when i was totally desparate, i'd take him grocery shopping and give

him his own " list " (pictures) and whenever we got close to an item that was on

his list, i'd pretend i didnt see it and wait for him to signal that he found

it.  I've managed to turn every outing and opportunity into therapy without him

even realizing it. it's second nature now. But again, board games.....love

them!  Doesn't matter how young (or old!) there is a board game for everyone.

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From: mykitkate <mykitkate@...>

Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 11:59:48 AM

Subject: [ ] snowed in suggestions for therapy?

 

Does anyone have any good suggestions for what games I can do with my son that

may also help with speech? We have therapy homework from his SLP but this group

always seems to have good suggestions. LOL Kate

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[Guest guest]

My 11 year old is taking an hour of sign language class each week as a means to

help her with her speech development, sentence structure and I have found she

uses more complex sentences when she plays lets pretend (role play) with her

teacher and I. Also I remind her lets practice fish face or whistle. as her

cheek muscles are weak.

s Mom

From: mykitkate

Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:59 AM

Subject: [ ] snowed in suggestions for therapy?

Does anyone have any good suggestions for what games I can do with my son that

may also help with speech? We have therapy homework from his SLP but this group

always seems to have good suggestions. LOL Kate

[Guest guest]

Here are some games my son and I play (he's 33 months)

1. He loves to play trains and we have a Duplo set. I'm one man and he's

another and we do the same thing over and over. Yesterday, he took a square

block and put it in the wheelbarrow that his man was holding and dumped the

block into the seat of my man's duplo car. I always said the same thing " Hey,

that's my seat! " After about 20 repeats, he started approximating that sentence

before I could say it. When we are on the floor playing with his Duplo's, I

narrate continuously and if he starts to talk, I let him narrate, repeating his

words back, and sometimes he resays the word more clearly.

2. We play Memory. I say the word of the picture every time he flips a card and

we say your turn and my turn. Sometimes I pretend to forget the word, " Hmm,

what's that? " and sometimes he'll say it. He's really good at Memory, but we

play with 1/3 of the cards. I also count his cards and my cards (I have ice

cream, doggie, dolly and train. You have cake, cookie and hat. He sometimes

points cake, cookie, hat)

3. Recently, he's learned to blow out a candle. I light a votive in a glass

holder and he has to blow across the top of the glass to blow out the candle. I

usually have to hold his jaw where it meets the neck to get his head and mouth

in the right shape. We cheer and dance when the smoke comes up from the candle.

4. He knows the alphabet and had a box of blocks with the letters on them. He

pulls out a block and we make up a letter sound dance. Like T becomes a

t.t.t.t.t making train movements and M becomes an airplane MMMMMMing through

the air A becomes falling AAAAAAA splat. Whatever movement comes to my head when

I think of the sound.

5. He loves to play www.starfall.com on the computer. He calls it play A I also

let him watch and listen to Barbara Milne's letter sound song on youtube and we

sing it afterwards making the signs for the words and letter sounds.

I don't know the age of your child, but maybe this will give you some ideas?

Liralen

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> Does anyone have any good suggestions for what games I can do with my son that

may also help with speech? We have therapy homework from his SLP but this group

always seems to have good suggestions. LOL Kate

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[Guest guest]

Liralen thank you so much for all these suggestions and thank you to everyone

else who offered suggestions. You have no idea how much I appreciate this

group. Sometimes it's nice after a long cold day to come to this group and know

there are others out there that care. Thank you and Happy Valentines Day to

all of you wonderful parents! Kate

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> > Does anyone have any good suggestions for what games I can do with my son

that may also help with speech? We have therapy homework from his SLP but this

group always seems to have good suggestions. LOL Kate

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