Speech Therapy Update

We have started incorporating our Clarke School speech therapy learning into our daily routines at home. We are working on a few different things:

1. Detection of sound
-not just hearing, but understanding that sound is connected to what is going on in the world and is important to pay attention to

Things we are doing:
-making noise behind his head and when we notice his recognition of the sound, slowly bringing it around to his line of vision so that he can connect the sound to what is making it
-playing freeze dance (the sound of the music makes us dance and we stop when the sound goes away---cause and effect training)
-playing games and singing songs with call and response
-pointing out sounds in his environment and pointing to the ears: 'I hear it'

2. The six Ling Sounds
-the Ling Sounds are six sounds (AH, OO, EE MMM, S, SH) that represent the full range of sound needed to hear and take in language.

Things we are doing:
-making the sounds loudly, nonstop, in a multitude of contexts
-working on Amichai's association of these sounds with certain objects (eg ice cream=mmmm)

3. Name recognition

Things we are doing:
-trying to narrow down his nicknames (lol)
-saying Amichai often and loudly and when he turns pointing to him and saying: that's you!
-when he doesn't turn to his name, saying it again syllabically with three taps on his body to gain his attention

Amichai is doing great on all these fronts...total trooper!

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