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Tic-Tac-Toe Heart Snack 

February 22, 2019Tri-County TherapyBlogoccupational therapyOTpediatric therapyphysical therapysensory processing
Tic-Tac-Toe Heart Snack 

Working on your child’s speech and language targets can be incorporated into fun, everyday activities at home.  Snack time is no exception. Today we are sharing a therapists favorite Valentine themed snack activity:

Tic-Tac-Toe Heart Snack

Follow the 4 steps below and enjoy this fun at home activity with your child:

Step 1: Gather Your Materials 

You will need: graham crackers, icing, and candy hearts  

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Step 2: Prep your tic-tac-toe boards

Break your graham crackers in half 

Count how many hearts you will need for each board (9 per board)  

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Step 3: Decorate

Place heart candies in each respective box after given a verbal direction. 

 

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Step 4: Enjoy

Time to eat your yummy snack!  

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Listed below are the speech and language skills targeted in the making of this snack:

  • Following directions – You can simplify this task with single step directions or increase the difficulty of this task to following multistep directions. (find 3 blue hearts, put the purple heart in the middle vs. find 5 pink hearts and 2 yellow hearts and put the green heart next to the purple heart and then but the yellow heart below the green heart.) 
  • Spatial concepts – on top, under, above, below, in between etc. 
  • Qualitative concepts – big, little, colors 
  • Quantitative concepts – one, all, few, two 
  • Attributes – same, different  
  • Turn-taking  
  • Conversation starters 
  • Figurative language  

 

Try the Tic-Tac-Toe Heart Snack at home and let us know how it turned out!

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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose

February 20, 2019Tri-County TherapyBlogoccupational therapyOTpediatric therapyphysical therapysensory processing
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose

Here at Tri County Therapy, books are one of our favorite activities to enhance speech and language development! The book, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose by Lucille Colandro, is a staff pick for February!

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Reading with your child at home is a great way to develop language and listening skills.  Story book reading together helps develop joint attention, phonemic awareness, and building vocabulary. 

Here are some tips to incorporate speech and language development into story book reading:  

  1. Ask various ‘WH-questions’ (who, what, when, where, why) about what is happening in a given picture on the page. This also helps him to work on spatial concepts (in, under, behind, in front), pronouns, sentence structure, and vocabulary skills.  

 2. Ask comprehension questions throughout and following the story to work on identifying the main idea and details of the book.

3. Ask your child to retell you the story once you have finished the book to work on sequencing skills. You can reinforce this skill with words such as first, next, then, and last.  

There are so many fun, free resources online available to help with retell of this story. Your child will have fun “feeding” the Old Lady! 

 

 

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Valentine’s Day Craft: Coffee Filter Heart

February 15, 2019Tri-County TherapyBlogoccupational therapyOTpediatric therapyphysical therapysensory processing
Valentine’s Day Craft: Coffee Filter Heart

Crafts are an excellent and fun way to work on speech and language skills! This month, one of our themed craft activities is a heart coffee filter. We are going to break the craft down into 5 easy steps so you can practice language skills and create a heart coffee filter anywhere.

Valentine’s Day Craft: Coffee Filter Heart

Step 1: Gather your materials

You will need a coffee filter, scissors, markers, water and droppers!

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Step 2: Cutting

Cut coffee filter into a heart shape!

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Step 3: Coloring

Have your child color the middle of the filter with pink, purple or red markers- it can be as simple or as complex as you would like! 

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Step 4: Incorporating Water

Use a dropper with water and drop small droplets of water onto the coffee filter.

Watch the heart colors grow! 

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Step 5: Communication

Talk about what happened! 

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Speech and language skills targeted in the making of this craft: 

Following directions –you can simply begin with one instruction or increase to multistep directions (first color the heart pink, then color purple, etc.) 

Spatial concepts – drop water on the red dot, color next to the red dot.

Inferencing – Ask your child questions such as “What do you think will happen when we drop the water on the marker spots?”-“What do we need to cut the heart?”

Sequencing – Use the “first, next, and last” sequential markers when talking to your child. Using sequential words prepare your little one for later developing literacy skills. “First we will cut the heart, next we will color the heart and last we will drop water on the colored spots.”

 

Let us know how the craft turned out @tri_countytherapy on Instagram!

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Game: Heart Hunt

February 1, 2019Tri-County TherapyBlogoccupational therapyOTpediatric therapyphysical therapysensory processing
Game: Heart Hunt

Tri County Therapy loves to make working on speech and language skills fun. Incorporating games into therapy sessions has proven to be successful and exciting for children. Today we are sharing a game that therapists use leading up to Valentines Day that can be played in clinic or at home:

Game: Heart Hunt

How to play:

Step 1: Gather your materials 

You will need: Different sizes and colors of paper hearts or candy hearts-kids can help make the hearts if you are using paper hearts.

Step 2: Pick a room 

A heart hunt can take place in any room in your home, outside, or throughout the entire home 

Step 3: Hide the paper hearts/heart candy

Hide the candy or paper hearts throughout the room while your child closes his eyes- make sure to put hearts under, over, in or beside items in the room.  

Step 4: Time for clues

Give clues to your child on where to look for the hearts e.g. Look under the big red chair, etc.  

Step 5: Counting

Count your hearts!  Be sure you end with the same number of hearts you began with.

Heart hunt is similar to an Easter Egg hunt. Children will be filled with anticipation while waiting for the Heart Hunt to begin! Heart Hunt incorporates the following language skills: 

  1. Spatial concepts (behind, under, in front of, on top, below, etc.) 
  2. Following directions 
  3. Qualitative concepts (colors, textures, big, little, etc.) 
  4. Turn-taking 
  5. Quantitative concepts (few, many, none, numeric values) 

 

 

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