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Playing with Blocks

How to incorporate your child’s AAC device into play

These slides have been created by Communication, Language and Speech Services at the Upper Grand District School Board and adapted from the AssistiveWare 5 minute fillers

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q37piF-l5z6Lh02eh6mqZcErtPGrrJ7-

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HOw do we use AAC to model?

Worried about finding all of the words you need? No problem! Only focus on finding 1 or 2 of the words in your sentences on the CORE page. You can fill in the rest of the sentence with your spoken words (EX. Say “Do you want to play a game?” and press “want play”).

Don’t worry about leaving the first page of your device. The home page (ie CORE words) hold the most powerful and versatile words to learn!

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core words that you may use while playing blocks

  • UP
  • DOWN
  • WANT
  • MORE
  • PUT
  • ON
  • OFF
  • STOP
  • GO
  • I
  • YOU
  • WHERE

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  • Use some of these words on your child’s device individually or combine 1-3 words together
  • Didn’t use all of these words? That’s OKAY!
  • Found different words to use? AMAZING!

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Ideas/Phrases to Model

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  • I Want to Play
  • Let’s play More
  • Knock it down
  • Put On
  • Go Up
  • Go Down
  • You Go
  • Take one off
  • Where should I put it?

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Check out this video example of building with toilet paper!

Building a tower with toilet paper​

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WHERE ARE THeSE WORDS?

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WANT TO EXPLORE A FOLDER?

  • If you are feeling comfortable with the core words and modelling during your game, try going into the “describing” folder to make a comment about your block creation!
  • EX. “Looks great!”, “That fun!”, “Like this”, “Not like”

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Ready for Another game?

Check out our parent website for more activities like this!

https://bit.ly/2KqvD2u