![]() Is Otsimo Speech Therapy only available in English?.Is Otsimo Special Education only available in English?.Can I use Otsimo apps on my desktop computer?.Can I Use Otsimo apps on multiple devices?.What are the topics covered in Otsimo Speech Therapy?.What are the topics covered in Otsimo Special Education?.So I made a little sneaky cheat sheet that I laminated and velcroed right near my morning group area So now I know when my kiddos are right or wrong.Frequently Asked Questions Table of Contents If you are able to memorize all your students’ information – I’m impressed. Because they would answer and I would have not freaken idea if they were right or not. I had a hard time using these when I would ask my students what their address, phone number, or birthday was. Here is a little sneaky tip if you are going to use these. Get these questions for free – Personal Information Questions Packet and make sure your students can answer questions about themselves. (sorry again about the mess up with the freebies yesterday – I’ll get those to you by Wednesday!) I store them under my Visual Questions ( Set 1 and Set 2) in my morning meeting area. I like having them written out with a visual cue because it helps my students ask each other these questions and provides a nice prompt to answering a question that can be difficult. We use these visual personal information questions during our social skills time in morning group. This will lead to increased functional independence and improved friendship making capabilities. We work on answering personal information questions all the time in my class. You need to be able to identify yourself and other important aspects about your life. Thanks for bearing with me…Īnyways – one type of question that is critically important to answer are personal information questions. Okay – I was totally not intending to go on this tirade. Children with autism have such difficulty identifying exactly what is being asked of them. The language processing challenges take over. They are trying so hard to answer the question but cannot discriminate what is being asked of them. I ask them ‘who’s birthday it is tomorrow?’ and they say Tuesday… cupcakes… ice cream… chocolate frosting… sing… November… song… party… vanilla frosting… You get the point. Sometimes they remind me of those commercials that were always on tv a few years ago. I have spent many hours of my life watching my beloved babies struggle answering questions. It’s how we make friends, it’s how we are assessed, it’s how we get what we want. ![]() ![]() Over the past few years I have realized how vitally important question answering is. Well – question answering = language + social skills. ![]() My question answering obsession obviously makes sense since I work with children with autism who by definition have significant impairments in language and social skills. I just like sounding really intense and complicated … even though I’m really not… Sometimes when friends or family members outside of the field ask me what my thesis is on I just rattle off the entire title and watch their dumbfounded face. The title of my thesis for grad school is Using Multiple Exemplar Training and a Transfer of Stimulus Control Procedure to Teach Question Answering to Children with Autism. It’s one of those obsessions that makes you know you are in the right field. But honestly I could have a whole separate blog dedicated to teaching questions answering. This is a secret, weird obsession of mine. I spent the past few days talking about tips and methods for teaching emerging verbal skills and responding to questions.
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