In this video, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark shows you how to teach a child to answer questions about things that have already happened. #speechieshow
1.) Make sure child understands how to answer questions about immediately present
- Knows what each wh- word means
- Ask about what they are looking at
- Ask about pictures in books
2.) Once the child can do that, work on past events
- Start with something that just happened (5-10 seconds prior), ask what happened
- Gradually increase length of the time between question and past events
- Take pictures and have child describe what happened
- Give clues like “you did something with paint and a paintbrush”
- Ask the child to recall the same even multiple times
- Work on sequencing common events and describing
Resource: http://www.speechandlanguagekids.com/sequencing-game-following-directions/
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I have a quick question. My son, who is 6.5 and is a HF autistic/aspie, has a very difficult time telling us the events of his day. I’ve always felt like I have to try a hundred different forms of the same question until it finally clicks with him and he can answer clearly. Could this be an issue with “wh-” questions? I’ve also noticed he has a difficult time with cause/effect (which carries over into our challenges to connect behavior and consequence). For example, on two separate occasions, a couple months apart, he was telling me they had a substitute teacher and that “because the substitute was there, Mrs. C had to be home sick”; the other time he explained that his mainstream teacher came in late “because she couldn’t come back from the doctor until the substitute left”. Is that an indication, perhaps, of a language impairment?
If I see the child is struggling to answer questions about a big event, I like to help the student make a small comic strip/ book about an event- such as a wedding she just attended! or a class trip to the park! or the baby her mom had! The child tells me how to draw it, she tells me what words to wirte underneath each picture, she colors it in, and then I try to ask questions about the event and have her use the book as a reference. She can also use it when other adults will invariably ask about this big event!