Positive Communication
Independent Speech and Language Therapy
Providing independent Speech and Language Therapy for children and adults requiring support with Alternative and Augementative Communication across Hertfordshire and the surrounding counties.
The LITTLEstep
The Little Step-by-Step is one of the most useful and versatile Easy Tech devices to which every classroom should have access !
It is easy to programme and allows either a single message or a series of messages to be recorded. The Learner is then encouraged to step sequentially through the recorded messages. Such motivating activities help to develop communication.
There can be up to 45 messages totalling 120 seconds.
Games can be played, stories read, songs sung, music played and instructions given. Choosing can be encouraged, turn-taking demonstrated, conversations initiated, maintained and closed, and real-time interaction can occur!
Interactions such as joke telling, sharing life stories and general conversations encourage the individuals who use AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) to move beyond simply communicating wants and needs to using real communication for conversational purposes.
It is easy to programme and allows either a single message or a series of messages to be recorded. The Learner is then encouraged to step sequentially through the recorded messages. Such motivating activities help to develop communication.
There can be up to 45 messages totalling 120 seconds.
Games can be played, stories read, songs sung, music played and instructions given. Choosing can be encouraged, turn-taking demonstrated, conversations initiated, maintained and closed, and real-time interaction can occur!
Interactions such as joke telling, sharing life stories and general conversations encourage the individuals who use AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) to move beyond simply communicating wants and needs to using real communication for conversational purposes.
Social Communication Activities with the LITTLEstep
Single Messages:
Hello / goodbye
What are you doing?
Look
Can I play?
More / again
Yes / no
Good / bad
I like it / I don’t like it
Thank you
Something else
Come here I want something / go away
I need some help
Please get my chatbook
Sequenced Messages:
Hello, how are you, I’m really well, what have you been doing?
What is your favourite drink / food / colour / music / TV?
Phone conversation
Passing on a complex message to someone
Giving instructions “come here, turn on my music please, sit down, let’s have a drink, please go away”
Instructions for life skills: Making a cup of tea, a sandwich, washing clothes.
Choosing - places to go, things to do, people to see
Hello / goodbye
What are you doing?
Look
Can I play?
More / again
Yes / no
Good / bad
I like it / I don’t like it
Thank you
Something else
Come here I want something / go away
I need some help
Please get my chatbook
Sequenced Messages:
Hello, how are you, I’m really well, what have you been doing?
What is your favourite drink / food / colour / music / TV?
Phone conversation
Passing on a complex message to someone
Giving instructions “come here, turn on my music please, sit down, let’s have a drink, please go away”
Instructions for life skills: Making a cup of tea, a sandwich, washing clothes.
Choosing - places to go, things to do, people to see
School based activities with the LITTLEstep
Circle Time: "Today it is…", "The weather is..."
Home / school news
Counting: “1, 2, 3, 4, 5”
Colour sequences
Topic work: “push it” / “pull it" “it’s going to sink / float" "Big / little, heavy / light", etc.
Geography: giving directions
History: daily diary
Lines in a play
Musical instruments
Record homework
Playground rhymes
Home / school news
Counting: “1, 2, 3, 4, 5”
Colour sequences
Topic work: “push it” / “pull it" “it’s going to sink / float" "Big / little, heavy / light", etc.
Geography: giving directions
History: daily diary
Lines in a play
Musical instruments
Record homework
Playground rhymes
Literacy with the LITTLEstep
Read a repeated line of a story “We’re going on a bear hunt”
Read a repeated line + the final line “That’s not my Bunny” + “That’s my bunny”
Read a double repeated line “oh no said Mr Bear” + “I can’t stand this!”
Read the whole story page by page
Read a story with sound effects
Take turns in reading different parts “I see a red bird”/”I see a yellow duck”
Read a key word when it occurs in the story
Choose characters, places, descriptions to create stories.
Read a repeated line + the final line “That’s not my Bunny” + “That’s my bunny”
Read a double repeated line “oh no said Mr Bear” + “I can’t stand this!”
Read the whole story page by page
Read a story with sound effects
Take turns in reading different parts “I see a red bird”/”I see a yellow duck”
Read a key word when it occurs in the story
Choose characters, places, descriptions to create stories.
Fun communication activities with the LITTLEstep
Doll play: Give dolly a drink, snack brush dolly’s har, give dolly a wash.
Car play: Push it, make it crash, stop the car, make it go, faster, slower.
Dressing up: I want to put it on, take it off, try something else.
Shopping game: Can I help you?, do you want anything else?, Do you want to buy it? Please pay me!
Simon says...
I went shopping and I bought…
I went for a walk and I saw…
I went to the farm and I saw…
Ready, steady, go! / 1, 2, 3, go!
Favourite activities
Favourite music track (in 10 or 20 sec parts)
Different tracks of music
Repeated line of a song: Old MacDonald: “e i e i o”, "If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands”
Turn-taking songs; Any dream will do; “I closed my eyes…”
Fun sounds: telephone ring + “answer that phone”
Jokes
Car play: Push it, make it crash, stop the car, make it go, faster, slower.
Dressing up: I want to put it on, take it off, try something else.
Shopping game: Can I help you?, do you want anything else?, Do you want to buy it? Please pay me!
Simon says...
I went shopping and I bought…
I went for a walk and I saw…
I went to the farm and I saw…
Ready, steady, go! / 1, 2, 3, go!
Favourite activities
Favourite music track (in 10 or 20 sec parts)
Different tracks of music
Repeated line of a song: Old MacDonald: “e i e i o”, "If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands”
Turn-taking songs; Any dream will do; “I closed my eyes…”
Fun sounds: telephone ring + “answer that phone”
Jokes
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