Purpose: Develop verbal memory skills. See Also: Memory Instructions: Games starts with parent/therapist saying “I saw a frog.” Child must repeat the phrase and add one additional detail to the story, for example “I saw a frog that was green.”…
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Visual-Auditory-Verbal Program
Download this document: 159 VA Verbal Program Purpose: To create a sense of coding for language and to practice with representing simple and complex mental constructs using symbols. Symbols are translated into words, ideas, and sounds, and these are themselves…
Graphic Left to Right Activities
Graphic Left to Right Activities Illustrations Purpose: To develop visual motor integration and bilateral control, as well as motor control to build writing skills. Material: Chalkboard, paper and pencil, metronome, Illustration sheet Procedure: 1. Patient stands in good posture,…
Experience Reader
Purpose: To reinforce the match between vision and the speech-auditory in the reading process using the patient’s own speech vocabulary Materials: Dictated stories in the patient’s own words. Procedure: 1. Have the client (your child) dictate to you in…
Writing Style on this Site
See Also: • Introduction to Training: Overview of Learning and Vision Therapy Writing and video production are difficult when done in a vacuum. As authors, it’s difficult to generate material that will exactly convey the desired thoughts and sentiments. We…
Visual/Auditory Verbal Program
159 VA Verbal Program Purpose: To create a sense of coding for language and to practice with representing simple and complex mental constructs using symbols. Symbols are translated into words, ideas, and sounds, and these are themselves…
Secret Code
See Also: • Visual/Auditory Verbal Program Secret Code Secret Code is a fun and interesting way to develop awareness of language concepts. Written language is based on the idea that you can represent (first) concrete objects, then actions, then feelings, then…
The Value of Cursive
Occasionally, you will hear a report in the news about the value of cursive writing, and whether writing should be taught in schools. Here’s one example: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2010/08/11/calgary-alberta-handwriting-cursive-skill-education.html From the article “Cursive writing is still a mandatory part of the…