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ACTION WORDS
You may notice that your child has learned many more nouns than verbs. Request
always seem to be I want this or I want that. For some reason your child does
not use any verbs at all. You may want to use the nouns your child has to teach
some verbs. For example your child has just said "I want juice" or even the word
"juice" alone. You can then prompt "drink juice." Most nouns can be paired with a
verb.
Child says......................................................Teacher can
prompt
wagon............................................................ride wagon
juice...............................................................drink juice
book...............................................................read book
truck...............................................................push truck
bagel..............................................................eat bagel
bubbles...........................................................blow bubbles
ball.................................................................bounce ball
The above are a few examples as you should get the idea.
Books are really helpful for teaching actions. Buy a duplicate copy of your
child's favorite book and cut out all the action pictures. Put a single picture
on an index card and label the character and the action the character is
performing. For example I have a child who really likes Scooby Doo books so we
go through a set of index cards with his favorite characters on it instead of a
set of a set of boring action cards with people he does not know on them. Since
he already knows the character name I'll say the character and he has to label
the action. This has worked really well because we can now go through a book and
point to pictures (which have been the same as the ones on the index cards) It
works well to test for generalization of action words also.
Also important while teaching actions is to teach ones that the child is likely
to do. Instead of giving your child the SD to clap you can just label what your
child is doing. Then give the SD for the things your child does the most.
Remember also some actions are more functional than others. Teaching your child
to turn on the lights is more functional than teaching your child to touch his
head. Teaching your child to feed the dog is more functional than teaching your
child to tap the table.
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