Tarien de Villiers Speech Therapy / Spraakterapie

28/11/2023

📚 DID YOU KNOW?
Over 50% of children with speech sound disorders also have reading disabilities.
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📚 HET JY GEWEET?
Meer as 50% van kinders met spraakproduksie afwykings ervaar óók probleme met lees.

04/11/2023

Do not delay early intervention.

5788 likes, 127 comments. “The story of my daughter’s early Autism diagnosis at 14 months old. 💕”

05/10/2023

To the real superheroes, Happy World Teachers' Day! 🍎

Thank you for molding our students' minds and making the world a better place, one lesson at a time!

03/10/2023

October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month

10/09/2023

Meet Blue! The friendliest little blue truck you've ever met.

Nothing stands in Blue's way - that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a big important dump truck out of the muck and mire.

Luckily, Blue has made a lot of farm animal friends along his way, and they all help to get Blue and the dump truck back on the road.

I love using this book with the little ones in therapy to work on:
🐴 Animal names
🐖 Animal sounds
🐔 Verbs
🐐 Adjectives
🐑 Exclamatory words (e.g., "Help! Help! Help!")
🐄 Pragmatics

14/08/2023

Totally crushing on the Old Lady books for both group and class therapy sessions!

These books crack the students up with their humor and silliness, and it's almost like a game of 'what's the old lady gobbling next?' that keeps them hooked!

I use the Old Lady books to work on:
👵🏻 Story engagement
👵🏻 Sequencing
👵🏻 Sentence length (expanding MLU)
👵🏻 Seasonal/thematic vocabulary

10/08/2023

Balancing Bernie is not just another book... It's like a treasure chest that leads to endless fun and great learning opportunities in therapy! 📚

This book, bursting with cuteness and endless entertainment, is about a dog called Bernie, who has a very special talent that'll leave your students in awe!

Whether it's a fluffy feather or his favourite red ball, Bernie can balance ANYTHING!

I love using this book in therapy to work on:
🐕 Vocabulary
🐕 Adjectives
🐕 Sequencing
🐕 Rhyming
🐕 Inferences

Get ready to emBARK on a paw-some journey with Bernie! 🐶

08/08/2023

The students love this book as much as I do! 😁

Dragon Post is about a young boy who discovers a dragon in his house, and he doesn't know what to do with it! He then decides to write letters to different people asking for advice.

As you read this adorable book, you will come across actual letters that the boy received from these people!

I use this book in my sessions to work on:
👄 WH questions
👄 Inferences
👄 Verbs, nouns & adjectives
👄 Auditory comprehension

31/10/2022

HET JY GEWEET?

21/10/2022

Looking for toys to use with toddlers in speech therapy can be hard as this age group can be tricky to keep engaged at times. In addition, toddlers have a much shorter attention span so you can't do the same activity for 20 or 30 minutes.

I have a few favourites that I always go back to, and the kids seem to love it too.

1. Melissa and Doug Sound Puzzles: You can use it to work on making choices, imitating, requesting, labeling and prepositions (in, out, inside).

2. Spinagain: Use it for turn-taking, requesting, verbs (go, spin) preposition (on).

3. Ramp Racer: You can use it to work on expanding vocabulary (stop, go, car, fast) and forming sentences ("Car go.", "Blue car go.", "Red car fast.")

4. Melissa and Doug Fishing Game: Use it for following instructions, forming sentences ("Catch fish."), turn-taking and requesting.

5. Animal Stacking Cubes: I love this game when working on prepositions and sentences ("Dog in house.", "Cow in front."). It also works for following instructions.

6. Melissa and Dough Pound and Roll Tower: You can work on turn-taking, requesting and prepositions (in, inside).

19/10/2022

There is no clear-cut progression for the acquisition of pronouns. However, most linguists agree that "I" and "it" are the first pronouns to emerge, followed by "you". Research also indicates that children use most subjective and objective pronouns by 3 years of age and possessive pronouns by age 5.

18/10/2022

Spraakproduksie norme in Afrikaanssprekende kinders.