3. GO TO THE MARKET IN PEACE
SPEECH THERAPY INTERVENTION WITH PUPPETS
Cristina Bertran
Recipients: 3 children between 8 and 10 years with autism and psychosis.
Characteristics of the group
- Understanding: understanding uncomplicated commands
- Expression: omission of elements within the sentence
- Use: they need action slogans, they imitate the actions of others
Main need in the field of speech therapy: Facilitate, promote, improve and enhance communication and relationships.
General objectives:
- Encourage communication through the use of the puppet.
Specific objectives:
- Use language to make demands
- Learn to respect word turns
- Ask for and show things
- Develop social communication activities
- Get used to listening, looking at classmates in communicative situations and showing interest
- Encourage independence for everyday activities.
Description of the activity
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Theme: Go shopping
- Story represented by 3 puppets where each one serves to stage the proposed objectives
- Puppet seller
- Buyer puppet
- Sea puppet
- Each child plays the role of a puppet that will rotate throughout each session
Activity methodology
- Introduction to the activity
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Representation of the story with the puppets by the adult
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Questions to the children to check if the story has been understood: feedback
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Second representation of the story with the puppets by the adult
- manipulation of puppets and material by children
Completion of the activity
- The students: well received, active and eager to manipulate the puppets
- Effort and motivation to reproduce the assigned role
Proposals:
- Introduction of new learning from this center of interest
