Building Language Using LEGO® Bricks by Dawn Ralph

Author:Dawn Ralph
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784503178
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2016-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Verbal prompt

Spoken language is just strings of sounds that come to represent things in the world and their actions and relationships to each other. The relationship between a word and what it represents is arbitrary, for example, there is no reason why the sounds /c/ /a/ /t/, in spoken English, represents the furry animal that meows. When a young child first starts to understand language they must listen to strings of connected speech sounds. They must pick out which sounds combine to make up words and then make the connection between the word and the ‘thing’ that it represents. If they consistently hear the sounds /c/ /a/ /t/ when their attention is drawn to the furry, meowing creature they will eventually associate these sounds with the creature and understanding of the word /cat/ will begin to develop. Knowledge of the word is then deepened and refined through a process called mapping (see Chapter 4) as the child encounters the word in a range of contexts.

Of all the prompting strategies, verbal or spoken prompts are the most transient. That is, they are only there for a fraction of a second and then rely on the child holding the word in their memory and processing it for meaning. For this reason, in early sessions, it can be useful to team a spoken prompt with a visual prompt that is less transient.

The level of verbal prompting will be dependent upon the child’s language levels and the skills being targeted.

As a general rule, use simple sentence structures or single words where possible and always ensure that the child’s attention is on the item you are naming.

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