How to Use Books
Books are an amazing therapy tool that are incredibly versatile and always on hand! Chances are, you have tons of books lying around. Not only do books encourage an early relationship between kids and reading, but they are a quick and easy way to work on many areas of speech and language!
Here are a few ways we improve skills language using books:
Receptive Language
Identify colors, nouns, verbs, and other concepts
Following directions (“Point to the blue fish and red crab”)
Prepositions (“Which crab is under the shark?”)
Sequencing (learning about what happened first, in the middle, and last)
Expressive Language
Use of nouns and verbs
Pronouns
Sentence structure/syntax (“The boy is walking outside”)
Story tell and story retell
Make predictions
Social Communication
Identify feelings and the cause of feelings
Perspective taking
Articulation
Practice saying pictures with the target sound
Phonological Awareness
Rhyming
Pre-literacy skills
We love using books to work on speech and language!