Expressions

21/03/2025

17/01/2025

Started off my Language therapy lessons in school with this raw material sheet posted above without much expectations. I was ready with backup activities as well.

Goal was that the children needed to complete these pictures using their imaginative skills and to talk about them so that I can work with multiple targets- sentence length, structure, speed, articulation, vocabulary.

But I was blown away with the creative minds of 5-6 year old kids. This activity turned out to be a wonderful ice breaker.

They not only enjoyed this activity but also presented it so well trying to make the maximum use of speech and language skills.

Inference- Natural method of learning language goals is the best method. Kids just need a spark, some love, attention and an attentive listener.

03/12/2024

"Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man"🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Read the caption to know more...

Flash cards are good but hand made resources hit different 😇 - a trying to be "Creative SLP"

Christmas is around the corner and it's time for cookies🍪

Being a holiday staple 'The Gingerbread man' story is usually retold around Christmas and is loved by children due it's characters, winter/holiday setting and catchy refrain.

From the Language and Communication point of view, it helps in so much language building in kids of all ages especially those between 1-5 years.

Let's have a look at the language and communication targets you can work on by including this story in your therapy session-

🍪 Understanding of major body parts -
You can help the child create a gingerbread man using play-doh, draw it, trace it or color it on a paper.

🍪 Understanding and expression of action words- baking, decorating, jumping, running, chasing... and so on

🍪 Understanding of different farm animals thereby boosting vocabulary.
You may also introduce animals with riddles for slightly older age group where the kids are already aware of the names of animals.

🍪 Adjectives or describing words as you talk about animals.

🍪 Difference between Farm animals and wild ones- How is the Fox different from the other animals.

🍪 To increase sentence length and to understand the rhyming pattern as you get a chance to repeat the refrain- "Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man".

🍪 Cognitive thinking and problem solving- what would have you done if you were at gingerbread man's place?

🍪 Comprehension of different types of Wh- questions.

🍪 Role reversal in asking questions.

🍪 Pretend play

🍪 Sequencing and Story narration- Which animal did he cross first/How many of them are chasing the gingerbread man.

And so on.......

Comment to add more to the list.

HAPPY STORY TELLING 😍

27/11/2024

Some abstract thinking and working on higher order language skills.

This activity can help in
▶️Developing abstract thinking abilities of a child (how will the rabbit reach the grass) In fact, choosing objects by themselves for the maze to understand relation between the two. Example- 'Why did I choose rabbit and grass? ' or 'Can you suggest one more pair'.

▶️ Cognitive thinking and problem solving (why can't a rabbit not go a particular way? Which way should we try next? Is the passage clear?

▶️ Language comprehension and Sentence building as the child practices listening and following directione, and a regular commentary as you solve the maze.

▶️ Fine motor skills and eye hand coordination.

19/11/2024

Activity to Learn POSITION WORDS (Prepositions)

Have you ever wondered how Dinosaurs and Cars can be an excellent medium to learn Prepositions.

This is a picture from one of my Speech and Language Therapy Sessions.

Goal- To help the child understand and use prepositions in phrases/short sentences.

✨ We started with making a tower of cubes- target prepositions being 'on', 'on top of', 'below'.
Example- Let's put the Blue on top of Red (using modelling).

✨ This was followed by placing a dinosaur 'in front of' the tower and one 'behind'- as the security guards.

✨ We Kept adding more toys to the scene and framed new sentences to elaborate preposition vocabulary. For example- 'Let us keep one dinosaur🦕 at the side of the tower and let's put a car 🚘 next to it.

✨ We were able to explore the prepositions- on top of, below, on, under, at the side of, next to, in front of, behind, between.

💫Swipe left to see more ☺

Do try this fun-filled and amazing activity, next time you want to work on Prepositions.

30/08/2024

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16/08/2024

We are back with Picture of the Day..!
Pretty good amount of Apple Vocabulary in process today.
Moral of the story- There is so much around each word to discover 😊

Like and Share if you like the idea.. And yes waiting for your inputs too💓

14/08/2024

An excellent activity to start your day👍
It targets-

➡️ Picture Identification
➡️ Comprehension of questions.
➡️ Sentence building.
➡️ Multi-dimensional thinking
➡️ Expansion of vocabulary
➡️ Topic maintenance
➡️ Articulation skills ( The picture of the day can have the target speech sound in it)
➡️ Presentation skills for older kids.

Do let me know in comments if you find it useful and need more such ideas for your language therapy sessions😊