Child's work

Welcome back! Okay here are some ideas to do with the items I mentioned in my previous post. Barn/play house: First label animals in barn, rooms, people, items in playhouse. Then set up familiar play scenerios with the animals, people in the house. For example: The animals get food put out in a certain area and go there to eat and drink. Some social conversation between the animals as in greetings, asking how their day has been, comment on the food and water, maybe even have an animal that is a picky eater and complain about food choices. People in the house, dad can be vacuuming and dusting, mom is making dinner, children are cleaning their rooms. They all gather to eat dinner at the table. Provide dinner conversation modeling: how was your day-dad? Tell me one thing you did as school, son. Dinner is delicious. What is for dessert. Maybe some whining too! Lol make it realistic and pull from real life. Cars: Racing cars, give them human feelings and abilities. Watch the movie cars. The goal in these is to teach language! Both receptive: understanding of language and expressive: use of language. Children need repetition and neurotypical children will add to your play activities with bits of their personality as well as what they have in their language base. We also want to teach and use imagination. These skills are important for normal development. Exploring and experimenting with the people in their environment, practicing speech and learning language and social rules. More later!

Play is your child's work

The value of play as technology explodes seems to be receding. Let's think about play and the benefits to your child. Play helps your child learn about their body, how it works, where they are in space, and how to interact within their environment and with others. It also is the basis for learning language. Children play with blocks, beads, cooking like mom or dad,making things go, use their imagination to use items to represent other items. So with this being said here are some items to have in your home to play with your child! A barn or play house with people and vehicles Bubbles Tupperware or pots and pans Blocks Stringing beads Playdoe Puppet or sock made into a puppet Play food and tools Board and pop up books Basket full of common objects This is a start. In the next blog I will give you some ideas on how to use the above.

More on Grammar

A few more tidbits to add in grammar. I vs Me: When to use. As a general rule. The pronoun I starts the sentence, is usually the subject. We use Me as the object or at the end of a sentence. Do and Does: when it is more than one person, we use do. When the subject is one person we use does. The trick to remember is two letters in do equals two people in subject. Simple yes but some of our kiddos need to be directly taught that to incorporate into their language! I hope you are finding helpful! Feel free to ask questions or comment!

 

Grammar and Language

The English language is easy for most of us. For those that have a language disorder it is overwhelming. So here are a few tips we can directly teach to ease the learning. Have and Has: we use have when the subject is two or more (use pronoun they, we). The trick form the letter v with your fingers-it is the number two! Is and Are: are is used when subject is two or more (use pronoun they, we). The trick form the finger spell letter for /r/- unfold, the number is two! These are simple tips with visual and kinesthetic input for kiddos to learn the difference and when to apply! More to come in a later blog. Love to hear from you!

 

A B and C Rules

A bit about social rules and what we should be teaching our children to be successful. The target age for this should be 10 and up. Introduction for those that have challenges with social rules may want to be younger. This applies for neurotypical children as well as those on the spectrum. A, B and C rules. A is an always rule. Yes I know we as parents want all the rules to be always rules. These can be determined by law, parents, teachers, morals and values. Every family will have a different set of rules and where they fall. B is a bendable rule. For example, the speed limit is a bendable rule. The sign may state 65 mph most drivers know there usually is a 5-7mph flex. C is a choice rule. For example, in high school the rule may be no cell phone but each teacher chooses whether they will enforce in their classroom. I am sure we all can think of more examples to add to each category. Feel free to post!