ECE Student · Speech-Language Impairment · 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:
- Encourage interactions and requesting
- Sustaining joint attention on language tasks
- Support auditory comprehension and literacy development
How Talkido was used
- The Talkido has been used as requesting model for the student to request more music which is her biggest motivatior.
- With different verbal and gestural cues, The Talkido has been used for various types of requesting activities.
Outcomes
Increase on Joint Attention Span
With necessary cues and assisting, the attention span is increase massively.
Adapting Rapidly
After just a few trials, she was excited how it gave her a voice and interact with it.
