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#43 for Internationally Adopting Parents
December 28, 2006
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Steps to Help Your Child Acquire English Language Skills
In this newsletter we continue printing 4 steps that our speech pathologist Natalia Likhtik offers to new adoptive parents as a guide for helping children acquire the English language faster.
Adults use mealtimes to "socialize" and "catch up" on the child's news of the day. Adults introduce narrative skills through modeling and telling a simple, personal narrative about a special event that occurred today or during the previous day. Good, clear models are essential in order to familiarize your child with basic story elements and terms that help to provide structure and temporal sequence (e.g., "first," "next," "last") in stories.
Adults then ask children to tell them about events during their day. They may have witnessed the event, but did not participate along with the child. This will provide the adults with some context in which to guide and support a child's story telling attempt. For better narratives, adults can provide children with the focus or theme through comments. For example, "It seemed like you and Michael were having so much fun in block area. You were laughing so loud. Tell us what was so funny." Or: "I saw that your teacher Maria put a band-aid on your elbow. What happened on the playground?"
Adults can help children with their narrative skills development significantly by being a truly interested conversational partner.
Goal: To develop personal narrative skills
- Teach a child to relate events sequencing them with the beginning, middle, and end.
- Teach a child to relate events with explicit, casual, and temporal sequence among events.
When: Mealtime, daily basis
How: The parent should be an interested, supportive communication partner during regular conversations and provide opportunities for children to practice skills during interactions.
Strategies:
- Model personal stories (e.g., tell a 4-5 sentence story about what happened on the way to school or other interesting story that happened during your day).
- Scaffold the child's attempts by restating utterances, expanding ideas, and providing words to describe the child's gestures (e.g., "Oh, it hurts right there!" "Your doctor gave you a shot?").
- Ask questions and make comments that continue a conversation (e.g., "What happened next?" "That sounds scary!").
- Use prompts for more information (e.g., "Tell me more.")
Compiled by Natalia Likhtik
Licensed Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist
www.bgcenter.com/BE/NLikhtik.htm
www.bgcenter.com/BGCenterServices/SpeechandLanguage.htm
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