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Michelle Stewart Tooson, M.A.,CCC-SLP: Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2011 5:44 PM
Summer Break: Tips for how to help kids maintain their skills through the summer.  Schools out! Kids are running in the streets and parents are scratching their heads..."Outside of the pool and camps, How am I going to help my kid maintain the skills they learned in therapy?". Here are some tips that may help you survive the long break:
- Speech Baskets, 10 minute Intervals: Keep a basket with 5 items or picture cards with your child's target speech sounds or language concepts, have your child participate in short "drills" with you for 10 minutes, reward with hugs and verbal praise and you're done! They'll feel great and you'll feel like you did something productive!
- Taste Testing Game/Survey: Conduct a "taste test" with various types of cold popsicles, various flavors, textures or do it with different ice cream flavors. Have your child describe the flavor, write down descriptive words and let them "rate" the flavors with stickers or markers on a board. You can repeat this weekly and keep a chart of flavors, textures you've tried.
- Summer Chores: Create a "game" where you have your child help you sort clothes ("dirty" vs. "clean"), describing what makes them different, sort them by color and place them in/out of the washer and dryer. Take pictures of the steps you perform and create visual sequencing cards for the next time they pay the "laundry" game. Make it a little more challenging by having them take the clothes to the different bedrooms describing which clothes belong to which family member.
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