"STR" Blends with Pictures

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Consonant clusters with velar speech sounds 'k' and 'g' for Speech Therapy activities

CL Clown Clue Clock Click Cluster Clerk Clap Climb Clothes Cloud	Cr Crown Crab Creep Crocodile Crowd Cross Crap Cry Crib Cricket Cruel Crispy
GL Glove Glue Gloss Glimpse Gloomy Globe Gladiator Glamour	GR Grind Green Grow Grudge Grand Grammy Gross Grumpy

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Consonant Clusters with " P" and "B" ( Bilabial Speech sounds)

"PR" Pram Prick Prune Prawn Primary	"PL" Plums Plate Plank Plump Plumber
"BR" Brandy Brass Broccoli Bruise Brim Broom Brother Brocade Broad Bride Bran Brand Broth	"BL" Black Blue Blossom Blink Blonde Block Blur Blooming

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Consonant Clusters with Sound "S"

"ST" Star Stick Stock Stew Stephen Stella Stapler Stool Steal Stop Stamp Stain Stage Stone Step Sticker

"SN"  Snow Snail Snatch Snake Sneakers Snoopy Sniper Snack Snap Snout

"SP'  Special Speech Spice Speed Spectrum Sponge Spinach Spellings Spilt Spot Spoil Spoon Spy Spain

“SM” Small Smash Smell Smooth Smuggle Smith Smart Smile Smog Smoke

“SL” Slow Slope Slide Sledge Slap Slippers Slice Sleep Sloth Slim Slack Sleeve

“SC” School Scooter Scarf Scale Scope Scary Scan Scalp

“SW” Swing Sword Sweet Swan Swear Sweater Swim Sweep Swap Swiss Swell

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Forced choices

Forced choices or forced alternatives are a good way of prompting. Simply it means, giving the client two options to choose the right one from when he is unable to respond appropriately. 

Here is an example:

If you are showing a picture of a girl who is crying to your client and asking what the girl is doing, you can cue her by giving options " Is she crying or eating? " ( more distractive and child finds easy to choose from) or " Is she crying or carrying?" ( difficult to choose because phonemically similar) when she is unable to answer independently,

I identified some problems using forced choices in prompting. According to my experiences, forced choices are less effective for the kids  who have echolalic features. They more tend to repeat the whole forced choices instead of choosing the right answer.

eg. ST: Is she eating or crying?

      Child: eating or crying

For the kids like that, prompting with phonemic cues ( eg. K..for crying) are more effective. 

However you can try forced choices with kids with speech and language delays successfully.

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Useful scripts with " I want "

The script " I want" is one of the early and very useful scripts to practice with children with ASD. The following are few modifications  to be  practiced with your kids.

• I want.... bubbles/blocks/ puzzles/ ball ( name of the toy)

• I want... cookies/ water/ apple/ ( name of the food item)

• I want ... to go to toilet/ to play/ to run ( name of the activities they need to do/ actions)

• I want ......tissues/.towel etc.

• I want..... goat and pig  ( with 'and')

• I want both ( asking for 2 things at a time. eg. you are holding 2 puzzle pieces at a time)

• I want all ( eg. all puzzle pieces)

• I want .(...any thing as mentioned above........), please

• Teacher!/ mummy!, I want .(...any thing as mentioned above........), please

• Excuse me, I want .(...any thing as mentioned above........), please

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How to prompt in 'Turn taking'

Turn taking is one of the very important pre-linguistic skills. If the child is not able to wait for his turn / to take turns during activities, you can prompt  him as following
( Let's think you are taking turns to thread colorful beads to a string)

• First practice taking turns with one person ( you and the child)

• You can physically prompt the child. This means, you hold child's hand to prevent him grabbing beads and threading  without waiting for his turn. You release his hand when it is his turn.

• Also you can control the child by giving one bead at a time. So you are  giving the bead when it is his turn only. 

• You can verbally prompt him by saying " It's your turn now/ It's my turn now"  or It's John's turn/ Teacher's / mummy's etc. turn".

• You can cue him by asking "My turn finished.  whose turn is it now?"

• After he is mastered with one person , you can try with more than one person.

• And also you can generalize his turn taking skills with real board games.

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