Social Language Development Part I

These are two sample pictures which you could use for social language development.

Picture 1 (boys playing football):

1. To enable to child to form thoughts out of scenes he sees in a picture appropriately. Make him think of suitable conversational lines/application

2. For those children who require more prompts/assistance, you could start by asking some of the following questions which will help the child to associate his thoughts/imagination to form the correct respond e.g What are the children doing? Where are they playing?.....

3. You might want to ask the child - what are the children going to do after playing football?

Respond such as - Boy won't be saying ....That's spiderman. He might actually say spiderman but in the wrong context - instead referring to what he sees on the T-shirt.

Picture 2 (frightened girl)

1. Child is to indicate his understand of emotions. The ability to provide several reasons to forming the emotion.

2. You might want to assist the child with the reasons by giving the child the idea where is the place? - playground? Maybe she climbed up a tall tunnel? Or perhaps she saw something scary? Whatever deemed suited to mean something logical to the picture.

Aim: To initiate conversation building. Get the child to say correctly in full sentences. Allow the child to imagine and think on his own.

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