language

Toys to facilitate language acquisition in preschool aged children:
|| ====**ABC Phonics Felt Set**==== This word toy integrates visual and kinesthetic learning. The words and pictures can be moved around, touched & felt. For a preschool aged child, it can be made into a game of mixing and matching the right words with the right pictures. || No real modification is necessary. Many times, anything that is touchable is great for teaching children with special needs. It helps maintain focus and adds in another sensory experience to make a solid foundation.
 * **Image** || **Description** || **Accomodations for children with special needs :** ||
 * [[image:http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/KaplanEarlyLearning/46742?$WEB500$ width="199" height="199"]]

This game would be good practice to use with children with //**anomia**// (word recall deficits).

These emotion card might be more appropriate/useful for certain children with special needs, such as Austism. Like to the Phonic set, they work on identifying words and what the words stand for, specifically emotions. || Excellent tool to use in learning reading and correct speech production. The Toobaloo combines sight, sound, and touch. The students hold the Toobaloo like a telephone and their speech is amplified through the earpiece. || Specifically, this tool would be excellent for children with Speech/Language Disorders. Also, it could be very helpful to help students with hearing loss when practicing speech or just reading. || Programmed with over 300 questions that keep students engaged in tongue twisters, rhyming, singing, drawing, and acting. Offers 9 fun challenges that reinforce oral language, listening, classification, and cooperation. || This toy has a large variety of applications to language aquisition. For some children with special needs, this toy might be too distracting or overwhelming because of the variety of things it can do. When working on educational goals, it might be too random to zone in on problem areas. ||
 * Emotion Cards**
 * [[image:http://www.kaplanco.com/images/catalog/productPopup/23122new.jpg width="217" height="217"]] || **Toobaloo**
 * [[image:http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/KaplanEarlyLearning/91010A?$WEB250$]] || **Funny Phone Early Listening Game**