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2. Guess Where?

By Jean Gilliam DeGaetano. Available from Brainstorm Educational and Special Needs Resources (www. brainstormed.com.au). I use many of the “Great Ideas for Teaching” resources. Listening and Remembering Specific Details is especially effective in teaching children to listen actively, since the children are told, before having the paragraph read to them, what questions they will be asked after the story is finished. Once they become used to the format of these activities, I find that their capacity to listen for and remember details improves over time. 4. PM books (suggested by Bronwyn Bryceson) PM Starters. Available from Cengage Learning (www.primary. cengage.com.au).

(suggested by Jenny Adams) By Milton Bradley. Available from Toyworld and other games retail outlets.

Guess Where? is similar to the old favourite Guess Who? , but I find Guess Where? is more useful for speech pathology purposes. It consists of four identical houses (the same six rooms are repeated top and bottom) and four identical families (with six people and two pets in each). I use it in the same way I use other barrier games. Children can follow directions or give directions to set the people and pets up in the houses and then check to see if the two scenes match. It is useful for teaching question forms, prepositions and various grammatical morphemes, and can be adapted for a variety of articulation goals. The kids love inserting the people into the slots in the various rooms and I love it because I can get two lots of responses by repeating my task with two sets of families. 3. Listening and Remembering Specific Details (suggested by Bronwyn Bryceson)

The books from the “PM Library” are early readers that contain attractive colour photographs. I use them as a means of encouraging children to use various grammatical forms repetitively. I recommend that parents borrow early readers like these from the library to share with young children with comprehension difficulties. Readers are repetitive and short, and I find that by listening to these books, children can learn to enjoy being read to. 5. Wooden Marble Tower (suggested by Bronwyn Bryceson)

Marble towers such as the 60-piece Rolliblock Marble Run are available from iQ Toys (www.iqtoys.com.au). If there is any chance of coaxing an unwilling child to speak in the clinic, then this marble tower, ordinary though it appears, will do the job. There is something very appealing about watching the marbles drop from level to level; even young babies like to watch and their older siblings ask to see it again weeks after they have first seen it. The towers used to be in the Oxfam catalogue (they are made in India) but are no longer included. However, I believe that if anyone was interested in requesting, along with their colleagues, seven or eight of the towers, then Oxfam might import them specially.

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