Functional Vocabulary Book with REAL Photos: Toys

by Panda Speech

Price: 300 points or $3 USD

Subjects: speech

Grades: 15

Description: These books are great for functional vocabulary, increasing MLU (mean length of utterance), matching skills, and expressive/receptive language skills. These books were designed to be simple and functional without a lot of distracting images or text. I hope you find them useful! I love using them in speech therapy sessions! Many children will recognize the functional vocabulary in these books and get excited to use the symbols and pieces! How I use this book: I point to the large picture on the page and see if they can identify it (I use the prompts: “what is this” or “this is a ____”). There are 3 images on the right side of the page, have the student find the matching picture and drag it in the blank square on the page. After that I have them repeat the sentences on the page while pointing to the symbols. “I wear a ______ ” If the student is limited-verbal, I have them point to the symbols while I verbalize the sentence for a model or have them tell you with their AAC device (again, providing a model when needed). Expansion idea: You can ask the students follow up questions about each toy such as: “Where do you wear play with this toy? Inside or outside?” “What is your favorite toy?”