Hi everyone- my name is Holly Garrison and I am the second blogger from Speech on the Fly here to introduce myself and present you with more great materials. I have had experience working with preschoolers with autism and definitely enjoy the challenge (and rewards!) that these young ones bring. However, after going through classes in dysphagia, aphasia, and motor speech disorders then attending a conference about laryngectomy patients, I am beginning to feel torn about where my career will take me. I hope that my placements will help me decide!
As of this week, I am out of the university clinic and on to externship! I will be spending half of my week working at a center that specializes in multi-disciplinary evaluations including professionals such as SLPs, OTs, PTs, special education teachers, psychologists, nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, and developmental pediatricians. Already this week I have witnessed children being newly diagnosed with autism, ADD/ADHD, and intellectual disability. It is such a unique placement and opportunity to get to work side-by-side with different professionals, learn from them and pull the pieces of the puzzle together to make a proper diagnosis. I'll be completing my first solo eval next week, so stay tuned to hear how it all went!
My second placement will be doing home visits through the Early Intervention program. I will be starting this placement later next week once schools get up and running here in New York!
Without further ado... here is a link to our TPT store for another FREE download: Red Light, Green Light! This is a material I created while working with a Pre-K articulation client a few semesters back. Originally I made it to be used during an auditory discrimination task and I used a toy car for her to "drive" back and forth between the two lights. I would say a word and if I said it the "right way" she was to drive it to the green light....if I said it the "wrong way," park it on over by the red light. She loved that it was interactive and was not simply saying "yes" or "no" which could clearly get boring for a little one. After creating the material, I realized I should laminate it and save it for the future- it is definitely a material that can easily be adapted for other cases. Some other examples for uses:
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Articulation/phonology: Use for auditory discrimination tasks… drive to green
if correct, red if incorrect. The child could do this for your productions or
you could do it during theirs.
--> Social skills: Read
aloud a situation and if the child thinks what the main character did was the
right thing to do, drive to green, or wrong, drive to red.
--> Language: Read
aloud a phrase/sentence and ask them to show you if you used the target skill
correctly. Could incorporate grammar, syntax, or other skills.
--> Fluency: Add some
texture to the road to represent "bumpy/smooth speech" if you're
working on that... The road provides a nice visual of a continuum so you can
move the car gradually from red to green as he performs a fluency shaping
technique and can also represent progress (e.g., "that wasn't quite green,
but you're almost there!")
--> Reinforcer/Self
monitoring: Use during any session to subtly recognize positive and negative
behaviors of the child. They're going to want that car on green (perhaps if a
prize is at stake!!)
I'm sure you're all super creative and resourceful and can come up with countless uses for this material so laminate it right up and start putting it to use with your new kiddos!
We're just getting started- keep following us here at Speech on the Fly (dot blogspot dot com) and let us know what you think!
--Holly
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