We had a great group meeting this Saturday. Thanks everybody for attending!!! I will be meeting with Shelby to bring her up-to-speed! I appreciate that everybody else was able to make it! I am posting here the notes that I distributed you so that you can always come back here to see them.
Duchis -- IDEAS FOR ASKING HER QUESTIONS AND FOR HER TO ASK QUESTIONS
1. Put a string across her room and a curtain.
• Stage: put shows together.
• Play Fashion Shows, Rock Concerts, Circus shows, Recitals and ask her questions about all the details of the shows. Ask question like: Who are the models? What outfits are they going to wear? Where could we go with the outfits?
• Ask her opinions.
2. Transform playroom floor into a board game, like “Friend-Candyland”
• Put 25 pieces of paper on floor, create a board game.
• Have a big dice with numbers
• Each paper has a question. When you roll the dice, you land somewhere.
• Each friend takes turns asking questions to the other friend.
• Questions could be like: “What do you like to ….?” “Where do you like to go …?” “What is your favorite …?” “How do we do …?” Also, cliffhangers like “Once upon a time, …. . What happened next?” “I saw the funniest thing happening on Saturday” … “What happened?”
• Some spaces are just going to say: “Ask a question about a favorite food”, or “Ask a question about the time when your friend was a baby”
• Other spaces are just fun stuff, like jump, run over, spin around.
3. Building things: “Where do this go?” “How do we do this?” “What part comes next?” And then … come on ask me a question” -- for example: Legos or the same car idea we have for Liam below.
4. Play reporters. Two microphones. “Today I will find all about you, and write a story” “We start by asking questions, isn’t that exciting” “First question is: What is one thing that you played today with your friend Mary” “Barbies” Did you play Barbie like going to the supermarket or like going to the circus?” “You just said Barbie, what does that mean?” And you act out the options. And then exaggerate like crazy the celebration when she responds.
Liam – IDEAS FOR SENTENCES PRODUCTION
Techniques are:
- Lots of modeling
- Lots of pausing and giving him a lot of time
- Giving choices: “I have this car, I don’t know what to do with it”
- Talking less so that he can talk more
- Use a game to introduce 1 or 2 key phrases per game.
1. Create your own book (big poster boards – like 2 for 4 sheets) using the flashcards for ideas. Make the book BIG. All sentences are connected to one story, like “Liam’s adventure”. Taking turns in creating the story. We could even stick the Baby Einstein flashcards as part of the story.
2. Take pictures of people doing things and use them for the story. What do you think these guys are doing right now? “Mom ran across Leo and … What do you think Leo was doing?”
3. Use a pillow case like a mystery bag. In the mystery bag we could put cards or things. The question is: If we had this, what do we do with this….? And then you get to do it. Parts of this: “what do we do with this part?”
4. Building a car with a laundry basket (RIDE BUCKET). All the parts of the car are made with paper: Wheels, lights, radio, horn, etc. “Let’s build a car”. Where does this go? What does this do? What do we need? Every time he gets a part, he gets a ride in the car. This idea can be applied to MANY vehicles. All the parts can be created with paper/poster board as part of the session. Will get some Velcro, too.
5. Build a TV again. Have a remote control. He clicks and point. You tell a story, act something out, something exciting. Fast forward, stop, slow you down, rewind, change channel. Then when they get behind it, they pick the topic. We pick the animal channel and see what they say about animals. We ask questions about animals when he is in the animal channel. In the music channel, he gets to sing songs.
6. Clown camp: banana peels, balls, fortune teller (“it looks like the next things mommy will do is: …. Banana peels”), magician, spinning, facial expressions.
7. Reduce the number of “What do you want?” questions and do other questions like “where did you go?” “Who has come to play with you today?” And then also combine: open-ended questions, multiple choice questions, and yes/no questions.
8. Model 1 or 2 phrases in each game you play. That way it is easy for him to recognize the one thing he needs to learn from a game and when he says them, he gets something he really likes. Model the key sentences from a game. And explain to him: The reason I am explaining this to you and the reason I am repeating these sentences like crazy, is because if you say these sentences, you will get all these things. E.g.: let’s put _____ in the box.
9. Play SCHOOL with Liam, he loves it! Also, use the multiple ideas that came with his new card box.
Our picture was in honor of Duch and her love for YOGA!!!!!
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