3 y/o story retell

Here is a link to a story retell by a 3.10 year old female.  The story is The Three Little Pigs with a little Gingerbread Man mixed in.  Take note of her imitation of stories read to her, including print awareness, prosody, rate of speech, volume and animation.  In the background you can hear her 18 month old sister imitating parts of the story.

And the winner is...

The random winner is... Betsy V.  Come pick up your prize!
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concrete categories

When targeting category generation, there are two types of categories; concrete and abstract.  A concrete category could be described as being "black and white", meaning it either is in the category, or it is not in the category (e.g., car types = Toyota).  An abstract category is more ambiguous, it may be in the category, but it may not (e.g., things that are blue = a shirt.  It may be blue, but it might be red).  Concrete vs. abstract is different when sorting items, so keep that in mind.

I frequently use the following concrete categories when working with adults:
foods- hamburger, hot dog, apple....
drinks- milk, apple juice, grape juice...
animals- cow, horse, pig...
items in a kitchen- sink, knife, cups...
items in a garage- car, rake, boxes...

The Ross Information Processing Assessment (Ross-Swain, 1996) requires the client to generate 15 items within 1 minute. The above categories allow for 15+ items per task.

GIVEAWAY

It is the 1st giveaway of the year! Don't get too excited, it is a small giveaway :)  One lucky winner will receive an oral mechanism kit that includes: a mirror, small light, 1 glove (not 2, just 1!), a grape flavored tongue depressor and other trinkets.  This package was given by Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinic. 


How to win: enter a suggestion for the site under the comments section.  Each suggestion is an entry, so provide me lots of suggestions.

*Comments section will close February 9th at 8:00am.  Random winner will be selected at that time. 

Looking for some simple tasks?

There are free printable tasks at Practical Ausitsm Resource. You can print some category tasks, BINGO  games, and noun cards. Be sure to look at the entire website, they have a variety of links and activities.