Imitation Skills

Imitation is a prelinguistic skill. This means that it is a skill children learn prior to speaking at word-level 🗣

So how do we work on imitation skills?

We use a HIERARCHY. We start at imitation of ACTIONS and build up to imitation of WORDS or PHRASES.

Some actions we could work on include:
👋🏼 Waving hello/goodbye
👏🏼 Clapping

During play-based therapy, the Speech Pathologist will model a range of words to your child.

🚙 If we were playing with toy cards these could include:

👉🏼 Nouns: car, red car 🚗
👉🏼 Verbs: push, go/stop
👉🏼 Concepts: driving fast/slow

Here is a little snapshot of the Imitation cards I made to use with my Early Intervention kiddies 🙌🏼

Originally, these were printed for movement break cards, for my ZOOM clients but recently they have found a new purpose!

I have made all different action/challenge cards and here are a few ways I use them 👉🏼

🕺🏼 Wriggle break from ZOOM
👏🏼 Challenges
🗣 Imitation (copying)
🥳 Following instructions with different levels of complexity
➕ Loads more...

Super easy to make and my clients love them 🥰