My kiddos love using BINGO daubers to for any activity. The ones at Michael’s are the best as they are washable! It’s great for getting repetitive practice for speech targets! Then we roll the dice and practice saying our target words the number of times on the dice while dobbing the board. Give a board to each player, and whomever fills it up first wins!
Two years ago, I wrote a post entitled November book of the month. At that time Ashlynn was just starting to imitate really well, and I used this repetitive book with her to have her work on the CV shape “pie.” Fast forward two years and here we are. Ashlynn can now say most of the Thanksgiving items in this book, she just has a hard time with word recall and
Oh apraxia is a sneaky devil. For so long I prayed to just hear her sweet voice say what she wanted to say. At some point she started imitating really well. She didn’t really call out to me “mama” and she didn’t really offer up “I love you” but she could say it in imitation, and this was good. This was very good…because NOT hearing those words was devastating. I
Since Childhood Apraxia of Speech requires a different approach to treatment, principles of motor learning theory need to be driving therapy. You can read more about this in my two interviews: Sharon Gretz interview and Ruth Stoeckel Interview Since getting 100-200 reps per session can be tedious and difficult to keep new and fresh, I came up with this fun Halloween game to play while you work on the child’s target sounds.
I made my first companion pack today to go along with the book, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams. This book is awesome for speech. I use it for elementary school children, but also read it to my young kids and they are spellbound. The pack includes a sequencing, describing and following directions activity related to the book. The book is a repetitive
I was introduced to Pete the Cat, by Eric Litwin last year when my daughter went to preschool. Not only does it have a catchy song the kids can sing and listen to online here:( http://www.thelearninggroove.com/song-index-contents/pete-the-cat—i-love-my-white-shoes#!pete-the-cat-i-love-my-white-shoes/c164e), but it is great for teaching a variety of things in speech/language. I’ll start with it’s benefit for apraxia. Research has shown that books encourage speech and language development. My mentor taught me to use