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Ways to Engage "Active" Language Learners

Many speech therapists implement a variety of structured programs to improve expressive and receptive language skills. Therapists will also incorporate games and creative lessons to challenge students to respond to questions, retell and sequence events, summarize information, provide the main idea of a story, and many more language-based tasks. Often the "active" child does not need a new lesson they need an entirely new method of learning (an a way to get out of their chair!).


Students who struggle with attention often demonstrate great gains when they receive sensory input, or when motor movements are incorporated into their sessions. Games such as zoom ball, paddle ball, using a balance board, or any other type of active work embedded into the therapy/language session will increase the attention and improve the overall retention of the language skills targeted. When you are reading with your child at home and want them to answer basic questions about the story read you can try some of these activities as a way of incorporating motor movements:


1. Ball toss to respond to questions, or other turn taking activities

2. Rolling a ball between one another

3. Target practice

4. Hopping/ladder activity to get closer to a reinforcer

5. Push on the swing


Get creative with how you manage language skills at home. It makes sense that if they are more engaged and interested in the session, that they will retain so much more!


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