PRESENTATION FOR VERBAL SKILLS FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION

TERAPI PERCAKAPAN

1. Pre Verbal Skills

2. • All children are special in their own ways.
•The presence of a child with special needs requires
our strength and patience to:
1. Accept his/her presence
2. Love him/her
3 and .… educate him/her.

3. As teachers or parents of children with special needs,
we are different from the rest because we are
stronger and have more patience in loving and
caring for these children.

4. It is our duty as parents and teachers to find
ways to support, encourage, educate, love
and care for these children with special
needs.

5. We should NOT have never ending negative
feelings and attidude.

6. 1. Eye Contact

7. 1. Eye Contact
Eye contact is important for normal social interactions.
Children with special needs find it difficult to sustain
direct eye contact and attention during communication.
Sustaining longer period of eye contact and attention
helps the child to understand language information such
as facial expressions and body language more
efficiently.

8. Basic activities to teach eye contact skill
-Put a toy NEAR your eye/eyes.
Reason: So that your child may look at your eyes and
face when you are talking to him/her.
-If the child DOES NOT make any eye contact, STOP
and call him/her before moving on to the next task.
-DO NOT FORCE a child if he/she do not want to do
anything that is being told. Try to change the activity
or find a way to do the same activity.

9. - STOP the activity before the child gets too tired.
- Give rewards only AFTER the child has successfully
completed a given task.
* Try to encourage the child to look at you if
he/she wants something.

10. Examples of activities
a)Moving an object from left to right and vice versa.
b)Moving and hiding an object.
c) Throwing/Rolling and catching an object.

11. 2. Attention span/Focus
-Many children with special needs find it difficult
to pay attention and concentrate on a given
task or activity.
-Children must acquire this skill before they learn
to understand language.
-Our first objective is to prolong their attention
span and concentration towards a given task
or activity.

12. How can we prolong a child’s attention span
and concentration?
-Gradually increase an activity from 3 minutes, 5
minutes, 8 minutes and so on.
-Have a variety of activities and always try to
catch the child’ s attention towards a given
task that is taking place.

13. Example of activities
a)Playing with balloons
Many activities can be carried out while playing
with balloons so that the child will not feel bored
easily.
Examples are:
- Blowing balloons
- Let go and chase the balloons
- Draw a picture or design on a balloon
- Blow a balloon and play “Let’s hit the balloon”
- Let’s burst the balloon.

14. •Playing with Lego blocks or jigsaw puzzle.
•Threading button holes, shoe laces, etc.
•Always encourage eye contact when
engaging in activities.

15. b) Drawing, colouring, cut & paste activities
-Get your children or pupils to get engage in
activities, examples: Draw your favourite car or
cartoon character in 5 minutes, and then spend
the next 5 minutes colouring it,
etc.
-Record all results.

16. -All children learn from imitation and repetition.
You may teach these children through play,
songs, story telling, etc.
-Train children to be good at listening and
following simple instructions. Examples: “go’,
“ready…. start”, “catch”, “push’, “stop”, etc.

17. 4. Turn taking
-Many children find the ability to wait, share and
turn taking challenging.
-Children with special needs usually experience
difficulties to understand concepts and rules to
follow when they are engaged in play.

18. Examples of activities
-Taking turns to throw and catch an object (ball,
bean bags, etc)
-Taking turns to roll or kick a ball, etc. Stress on the
word, “wait” and “start / go”.
-Putting in or arranging objects, blocks, puzzles,
etc.
-Give praises and encouragement. Example:
Good job…. (Child’s name) and give the child a
big clap to denote success or correct responses.

19. 5. Play
-Is an important basic skill leading to the
development of speech and language
acquisition, thoughts and imagination.
-Play involved should be familiar to the
child and in the form of their daily routine
activities to encourage the child to
process the various information that is
taking place.

20. Examples:
-Playing hide and find activity.
-Playing with things that the child can manipulate.

21. -Physical Play: stand, sit, jump, climb, walk, run,
etc. Example, child needs to stand the doll up
only after he or she hears the word “STAND”.
-Playing with tea set, doctor set, kitchen set, etc.

22. 6. Breathing
-Children with speech difficulties usually find it
challenging to control their breathing.
-This skill is an important component for a child
who is learning to speak.
-Correct breathing techniques can help a child
to produce sufficient air needed for speech
utterances.

24. Examples:
-Blowing feathers, tissue, cotton, etc.
-Blowing bubbles , lit candle, paper ball, balloon, etc.
-Blowing flour to find hidden sweets.
-Drinking/sucking water or blowing bubbles with a straw.
-Blowing a whistle, party horn, trumpet, etc. freestyle/
according to beat or tempo.

25. 7. Vocalization
-Playing with different vocal sounds encourages a child
to explore the way to produce various speech sounds
when the child is at the initial stage to learn to speak.
-Encouragement is needed to encourage the child to
vocalize so that he or she gets the opportunity to
practice oral motor muscle movement which is
needed for speech.
-Gradually introduce consonant sounds to add to
these vocal sounds to form babbling sounds and
single words. Examples: ba, da, ka  bag, bus, duck,
car, etc.

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31. -Pre verbal skills are important and necessary
tools needed before a child learns to speak and
communicate.
-A holistic approach is needed to ensure the
success of a child’s ability to speak and
communicate.
-This depends on an excellent teamwork and
commitment of all involved: parents, teachers,
speech therapist, occupational therapist, ENT
specialist, audiologist, counselor, pediatrician,
and MOST IMPORTANTLY, the child’s positive
attitude and willingness to learn.

32. Thank you