Speech therapy homework

I struggled to think of ways to achieve the objectives set out during the last speech therapy session, which I had written about in:
http://humbledmum-myjourney.blogspot.com/2009/09/speech-therapy-3-sept-09.html


It really bothered me the rest of the day & night. It was hard to incorporate those words with a middle 'k' used in the session as we dont use it in daily life (e.g. peacock, racket). I decided to pray about it & the next morning, I had some new ideas! Wow. God's good.


I woke up in the morning, remembering Caroline Bowen's website. The therapist had a few months ago pointed out that Caroline Bowen has a good website on "minimal pairs". This time round, I was hoping to find examples of other words that contained the middle 'k' sound.


From her website, I got to understand that the method his therapist was using was called "chaining". It's used in cases where the child is able to say the target sound in words that end with the target sound (e.g. duck) but not in words that begin with the target sound (e.g. cat). Apparently, by getting the child to practice saying words with the target sound in the middle (e.g. jacket), will enable the child to eventually say words with the target sound at the beginning (e.g. cough).


Caroline Bowen is a speech language pathologist (speech therapist) who has a very useful website. Lots of resources for free downloading. For the minimal pairs acitivity, she has done up lots of words with pictures! Saves you so much time in preparing the material. Here's the link:
http://speech-language-therapy.com/wordlists.html


These are the ideas that I've come up with, to get him practising words with middle 'k' sound:

1. Homemade dominoes - I'll replace the dots with pictures of words with middle 'k' sound (see newer posting for photo, details on how to make it etc: http://humbledmum-myjourney.blogspot.com/2009/09/homemade-game-of-dominoes.html)

2. Homemade pattern game - instead of using shapes or colours to teach him to recognise patterns, I'll replace those with picture of words with middle 'k' sound.

3. Homemade memory card game - this is the traditional flip 2 cards over at a time until you match up all the cards. I'll use pictures of words with middle 'k' sound.

4. Nursery rhyme songs - haven't come across songs with lots of the target words yet...but it's an idea. If you know of any, help me out by leaving a comment!

5. Daily activities - I've to keep an 'ear out' for suitable words used in daily activities & get him to repeat after me.

My progress so far:

So far, I've created the dominoes game & pattern game but yet to cut & paste them on cardboard. I'll write & share about those in a separate blog cos those activities can be done for normal kids too.

In terms of idea #5 above, these are the words with middle 'k' that I've picked up so far & got him to repeat & the situations in which I get him to repeat are in brackets:

- buckle (when I buckle him into his car seat)
- blinking (he notices there's a tiny light in my car that blinks)
- checking (he likes to check the bumper of my car when we arrive home)
- kicking (kids kicking a ball at the park)
- parking (parking the car)
- cooking (helper cooking)
- looking (at various times in a day)
- lucky (at various times)
- pancake (he likes to say 'flat like a pancake')
- blanket (he loves his blankie)
- King Kong (nickname he gave my sis)
- duckling (storybook he has about a duckling)
- tickle (we love to tickle him)

I'll have to run by this list with his therapist to make sure I'm on the right track. Hopefully, we can see positive results soon!