Developmental Milestones

• Parten's Play Milestones

• Piaget's Milestones

• Childhood Milestones Communication

• Language and Literacy for Preschoolers

• Communication Do's and Don'ts

• Articulation assessment - Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation (GFTA-3), Stuttering Severity Instrument (SSI-4), Oral Motor Functional Assessment
• Language assessment - Preschool Language Scales (PLS-4) and Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-5)
• Summary and Recommendations - Created to explain findings of the initial assessment and reveiw recommendations for ongoing speech therapy IF needed
• Homework with Resources - Paperwork with folder is given to children to work on speech sounds, social skills in play routines, language content and low and high tech communication modalities when appropriate
• Group Therapy Eligibility - MOST children will likely be given the opportunity to participate in our group therapy play program which focuses on speech and language needs

Due to the ever-growing caseload of preschoolers for the Creston speech therapy team, we are going to group as many children as possible to accommodate our numbers (More sessions for more children!). Group therapy activities will be presented to parents and children. The arts and crafts items and home practice exercises will be used with the take-home creations. Our model will be to improve articulation accuracy and/or language development with weekly sessions. The programs will be run for a 6 week duration with approximately 3-4 programs for the remainder of the year (January - June). 

• Group Organization
  • 1-5 years - language focused multi-modal communication
  • 2-4 years - language/articulation (largest groups!!)
  • 3-5 years - articulation
• Example Activities
  • Sheep activity with cotton balls, taking turns with concept language words and targeted speech sounds such as s-blends (stick, smile, skate, etc)
  • https://Sheep Craft

Family place [4 Ash St, Creston, BC V0B 1G3 (use Birch St North entrance)] is a provincially funded service program for preschool children and their parents. At these gatherings children and their parents will learn nursery rhymes, sing songs, have snacks, mingle with other children to work on social skills and play. Meanwhile, parents can network with other parents about concerns, celebrations, and everything in between. The Family Place coordinator is currently Wendy Garland. 

The Infant Development Program Coordinator is Korri Maloney. The Infant Development Program provides home based services for children from birth to three years old who are identified as being at risk for a developmental delay, who are developmentally delayed in one or more skill area or have a diagnosed disability.

• Family Place Creston
• Family Place phone - (250) 428 0218
• email - familyplace@valley.services
• Facebook Family Place Creston
• Calendar December - Family Place
• Infant Development Program
• IDP phone - (250) 402 6350
• email - cvidp@valley.services

Needs For Group

 

SERIES 1 (6 Weeks)

Language Group

Daily Home Routines for 6 sessions total

Materials for PART I series; 6 sessions

 

At Home Activities – Language PART I (SPARC)

‘Peeling an Orange’ p20

Toothbrush p12

Feeding animals p22

Getting ready for Bed p28

Making a Bowl of Cereal p41

Making a Snowman (on Paper) p44

 

In Clinic Progression PART I

1. Short Free play-toys? Welcome!

2. Activity – Craft then; game then; body movement action

3. Snack

4. Book-Brown Bear, Spot, Polar Bear, Moo, Love the World, Frog on His Own

5. Song

 

Session 1 - animals

              b. sheep/cotton ball, words that are animals (cat, dog, cow, bird, dozen different      words) then; matching target pictures then; sleeping bunny

              c. Eating an Orange p20

              d. book – Brown bear

              e. Old Macdonald, wheel on the bus, Sleeping Bunny, Baa Baa Black sheep, This is        BIG,BIG,BIG…..This is small, small, small, Five little Monkeys, Itsy Bitsy Spider

 

Session 2 - colours

              b. Caterpillar with colour cut-outs then; rainbow game – Find colour object in the        room and bring it over (set up coloured objects); bean bag toss through board/holes

              c. snack colour-coded

              d. Book – Hungry Caterpillar, 

              e. Song - 'I See Something XXX', etc

 

Session 3 - superlatives

              b. Valentines Day – biggest to smallest cutouts then; quietest-loudest (words in the          room), body mvmt – match size on different size hearts on ground

              c. snack – ‘eat the smallest piece of cheese’, ‘now eat the biggest piece of grape’

              d.book (valentine?)

              e. song – Skimin a rinkydink….

 

Session 4 – Concepts 1

              b.  planting a seed – concepts in, on, under, over, wet, dry, open, beside then; Simon     says for game and body break

              c. snack –  Blueberries, cheese, crackers, water, grapes with concepts

              d. Rosey’s book

              e. song – this is big big big…this is small small small; wheels on the bus, “put your              right foot in, right foot out…that’s what it’s all about”

 

Session 5 – Numbers 1-5

              b. craft-beads for bracelet?; bean bag toss to hoola hoops/body movement (jump three times, etc)

              c. snack-goldfish, berries, cheese, etc

              d. chicka-chicka-boom-boom, number books

              e. five little monkeys, counting songs

 

Session 6 – Categorizing      

              b. three of each (animals, vehicles, people, things that write, foods, clothes) – basketball hoop or hole toss a categorized item (“throw two foods into the green hole”)

              c. food groups “put a piece of fruit in your mouth”, “now put a veggie in your mouth”, 

              d. book – I Spy?

              e. song – five little ducks, five little speckled frogs