Great post!
The toys are exactly the same as my wife and I use in our OT clinic!
All kids absolutely love animals...and dinosaurs too, regardless of gender and its a superb way to get them speaking and repeating.
Do you use phonic based language learning such as Jolly Phonics? and I'd be really interested in your advice on how to help kids struggling to differentiate ch and sh sounds.
I also ought to post more about helping people with kids who have LD, ASDs, ADHD and global developmental issues and you should expect a knock on your blog when we have difficult speech cases we're struggling with.
Best wishes and thank-you :-)
Hello there! Are you an occupational therapist and where are you based? Looking forward to learning from you too! I'm sure this can benefit the parents or planning to be here on hive.😊
For the ch and sh sounds, I use gestural cues (sh- putting my finger to my lips for "be quiet" and ch- holding an imaginary spray) and verbal cues (sh- quiet sound, it is a long sound and ch- spraying sound like you're spraying water on the plant, it is quick and short). We practice imitating and saying it together then I present it using minimal pairs.
I used the Twinkl phonics for my classes since I purchased membership and they have tons of other language activities. I haven't explored Jolly phonics.
Thanks for the advice! I'm not an OT, my wife is and we have a clinic in Koh Samui, Thailand. I am the assistant. The cleaner. The guy who makes sure there are plenty of tissues handy! I also teach a little English and Maths, mostly to kids with special needs :-)