Speech/language with simple Christmas chains
2711, 2013

Speech/language with simple Christmas chains

We’re in the Christmas spirit around here and we started with a classic Christmas chain. * I first had Ashlynn sort the strips into their respective color piles. Great for developing early sorting and categorizing skills. * I then instructed her to put glue on the “end” of the strip.  Many kids with language delays have difficulty with positional words and she is no exception.  She kept wanting to glue

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How to teach toddlers their colors, interesting article I found on pinterest.
1806, 2013

How to teach toddlers their colors, interesting article I found on pinterest.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-johnny-name-colors On pinterest, I ran across this interesting article.  It basically says that children learn their colors faster by saying “the balloon is read” instead of “the red balloon.”  In English, we usually put the adjective before the noun, so our kiddos don’t get a lot of practice with learning it this way. I thought it was interesting from an SLP standpoint too though, because many language processing kiddos struggle

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