Week 3: March 30- April 3, 2020

Good morning!  As we approach week 3 here are some ways

you can incorporate speech and language into daily

routines and activities this week.  

For those students who are working on increasing

use of  words or are using devices to communicate, try this:

- In order to support functional communication, it is great to

have pictures of the things your child really likes.  You can

have pictures of favorite foods and drinks and hang them on

the fridge so that your child may request what they would like. 

Then you can have a back and forth exchange.

Whenever there is interaction between 2 people,

the desire to communicate more and in different ways increases.  

- Also take pictures of the daily routine: 

get up (picture of bed), brush teeth (picture of toothbrush),

eat breakfast (picture of child eating). 

You can make a little book of these pictures and read it together.

For children who aren’t that interested in books, looking at pictures

of themselves and things they are very familiar with may increase

the time spent together in an interaction. 

- take pictures of toys that they really like to play

with so that they can request these toys.  Try taking

pictures of parts of the toys such as parts of Mr. Potato Head

or parts of a barn set.  Keep the parts in a bag and give them two choices

- “do you want the eyes or the nose”? By pointing to a picture they are

telling you what they are thinking about and they are improving their

ability to interact which always leads to more and more attempts

to communicate.  

For those students who are working on making

speech sounds correctly, try this:  

Search around the house, inside or outside, depending on

the weather, for objects that start with the sound you are

working on. Consider taking a picture with your parent’s

phone and when you are finished go through and look at

the pictures and name them.  Remember to say your sound

correctly. Or you can carry a notebook with you.

When you find something, write the letter the object starts

with or try to write the whole word. 

Review the words later practicing your sounds.  

For those students who are working on

increasing language skills, try this: 

Search around the house, inside or outside depending

on the weather,  for items in categories.

Consider taking pictures on your phone and

reviewing them later.  

Find 3 things that are soft.

Find 3 things that are hard.

Find 3 things that are red.

Find 3 things that are big.

Find 3 things that are tiny.  

Do some comparing.  I see a rock and a mailbox post. 

How are they alike? (ie they are both hard)

How are they different? 

(a rock is small but the mailbox post is big).  

Have a terrific week!