Playground Talk-and-Play Scenes with SymbolStix

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by Say Gray Speech

Price: 200 points or $2 USD

Subjects: speech

Grades: 14,13,1,2

Description: This talk-and-play scene is made up entirely of SymbolStix images for children who use SymbolStix as their symbolic language on an AAC device. First choose a scene. The first nine cards have limited vocabulary, and the last card combines all vocabulary. The tiny objects on the menu/HOME page are also movable! A child and therapist or parent can play in the playground scenes, moving things around, giving and following directions, telling stories, taking turns, etc. Playing with the items in the scene is a way to keep a child engaged in one scene longer than usually expected with flashcards or task-cards. The play scene is not a flashcard, but a naturalistic context in which to learn to understand and use language meaningfully. If a student uses assistive technology for communication (AAC), they would use it in the same way a non-AAC-using child would, and they would learn it the same way, by having it modeled for them by their adult or peer communication partners. So if the target is "Go down the slide" the student would be prompted to use their device to say some or all of that target, or something just as meaningful. To have fun, make the sun, cloud or pigeon go down the slide too. Play hide-and-seek with the peaches (which snap behind all of the other images). Move all of the equipment "off stage," then pull the soccer nets on, and have the children play a soccer game. There are so many fun ways to interact and use language meaningfully in this activity!