Core Skills Analysis
Speech and Language
Olivia participated in speech therapy with Simone, engaging in a focused opportunity to practice communication skills. Through this activity, Olivia worked on expressing or understanding language with guidance from Simone. The session supported Olivia in building confidence and strengthening the speech and language skills practiced during therapy. This learning connected spoken communication with attentive, purposeful practice.
Social-Emotional Learning
Olivia took part in a guided learning session with Simone, practicing how to engage with another person in a supportive setting. The activity offered an opportunity to build patience and persistence while working on communication. Olivia also practiced participating in a focused, one-to-one interaction. These experiences can support confidence in communicating with others.
Tips
Tips After a session, invite Olivia to choose one communication skill to practice during an everyday routine, such as asking for an item while preparing a snack or describing a favorite object. Make a playful “conversation mission” together: take turns asking questions, listening, and adding a related detail. Olivia could also create a small illustrated practice journal to record a word, phrase, or strategy from therapy and draw where it might be useful. Keep practice encouraging and brief, celebrating effort and clear communication.
Book Recommendations
- The Listening Walk by Paul Showers: A gentle picture book that invites readers to notice sounds and listen carefully, extending attention to spoken communication.
- The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld: A story about listening and responding with care, offering a natural starting point for conversations about supportive communication.
Try This Next
- Conversation-card activity: write simple prompts about favorite foods, hobbies, and recent experiences, then take turns answering and asking follow-up questions.
- Listening-and-drawing game: Olivia listens to a short description and draws the scene, then explains the picture in their own words.
- Everyday communication checklist: choose one routine and note opportunities to ask, describe, explain, or take turns speaking.