Need Recommendations
August 21, 2012
Okay, all you early interventionists and preschool therapists – I’m looking for your recommendations. I need apps and traditional materials for therapy with my crew of 2-year-olds who are all very limited in their expression. Is there anything you just love and would recommend that I look for? I have toys out the wazoo at my center, so I’m looking for more typical therapy materials like vocab cards, Super Duper products, etc.
Most of my kids are emerging talkers. Some are still just making vowels, some babble and some use single words.
Help, please!
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I use adapted books with my two year olds like Brown Bear etc. Also, as far as therapy materials I like Vocabulary and Syntax Roundup, Action cards, Tuned Into Learning-Speech Sounds, Ipad apps- ABA receptive identification, Buddy Bear, Baby signs. The Teach e to talk is also a great resource. I hope this helps!
Apps my kids love: Mickey Mouse Road Rally, Touch and Say, ABA Receptive Identification by Noun, Clean Up Category Sorting, Baby Play Face, Let’s Build a bedroom, animals zoo, and Talking Larry (not my favorite, but good reinforcer). Hope that helps a little!
When I worked with preschoolers my two favorite toys were a small dollhouse with people, and a bucket of plastic cars with one of those rugs that has roads and buildings printed on it. I used lots and lots of PECs boards and books, the 1st Kaufman kit (great for teaching those progressive verbal approximaions), adapted books (Superduper has a Story Time Communication Boards set that is great for early childhood classics), and music like Marvelous Mouth Music and the Kids’ Train materials. Kids’ tape players and those plastic microphones, and a card reader. The last thing would be OT stuff like big exercise balls – can’ say enough about how helpul this was to helping kids punctuate sounds, words, rhymes, etc. and focus better. Hope some of this helps, and you have a wonderful time with your new job!