Helping Children Recover from Brain Injury
I love creating adaptive books, and love getting them into the hands of kids even more.
Use old, torn apart books and a quality laminator. Instead of buying brand new copies of books, ask libraries or teachers to donate their ripped books. A laminator will fix those ripped pages right up, and will give you a strong copy you can add velcro, glue, and felt to. [Read more…]
I had the opportunity to present research on using engaging reading aloud to promote language and symbolic play at the Council for Exceptional Children’s Early Childhood Conference this October. It was a wonderful opportunity to connect with other educators and hear about the current research in the field, particularly in the area of storybook reading.
While talking to participants during our poster presentation, I realized how many teachers and therapists are looking for ideas on how to adapt books to use with students with unique needs. I am taking a step back here in this blog to talk about the whys and hows of adapting books to create engaging read aloud experiences for children like Joey who are using Augmentative and Alternative Communication. [Read more…]
When I first picked up the book, Look! Written by Jeff Mack I was immediately intrigued. The book has only two words repeated throughout the entire story, and both of them are words on Joey’s device – Look, and Out. [Read more…]
“Love Silly Reading” Joey shared with me, and then looked in the direction of my book tub stacked behind me. “Silly reading” seems to be his new phrase for asking to read Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems. It is a pretty accurate description. The books are silly, and yet, have the opportunity to offer so much to our sessions. [Read more…]
Last week we talked about the importance of exposing Joey to the phonemic awareness activities such as rhyming games to help prepare him for skills later in life. Here are some of the rhyming games and activities we are working on so far. [Read more…]
