ECE Student · Speech-Language Impairment · Multi-Language Learner · Educational Disability · Primary English Speaker
The Denver Public Schools serves for students from preschool to high school. The SLPs integrated the Talkido into speech/language sessions with early childhood education (ECE) students to support communication and engagement.
The Challenge
The ECE students with challenges of identification, discrimination and practicing on speech production.The SLPs looked for a way to aid the areas as follow:
- Vocabulary expansion
- Functional communication
- Encourage interactions and requesting
How Talkido was used
- The student requests a 'hat' to participate in birthday 'pin the hat on the smiley' cotreat activity and used the Talkido Mio to interact in the activity. She uses the Mio to show her physical and emotional reactions and feelings.
- The Talkido system is integrated on froggy clothing dressing Occupation Therapy cotreat activity.
Outcomes
Engaging Interaction
The novelty of the product boosts interaction levels.
Providing Consistent Language Models
The Play Sets engaged the student while improving common item vocabulary.
