Play Based Early Language Handouts

Do you work in early intervention and/or support young/pre-school children with expressive language delay? Are you looking for a resource to support your play-based parent-coaching sessions that doesn’t involve any preparation? This set of Play Handouts is sure to be a must-have item in your Early Intervention therapy toolkit!

These Play Handouts follow a parent coaching and parent-child interaction approach, this Early Language Handouts pack contains a range of no-prep handouts to support early language skills and therapy planning/delivery for early intervention sessions.

Contents:

• Information for therapists with ideas for use.
• Detailed research overview about caregiver-coaching and early language strategies.
• 12 early language strategy handouts– each focusing on a different language strategy with ideas for how these can be used during play.
• 25 handouts for different toys/activities, with a list of play ideas, possible target words, and examples of strategies that would be useful to use with that toy/activity.
• A blank first words checklist, blank first gestures list, blank first signs list, toy/activities list, caregiver reflection sheets (two versions), a joint planning sheet, and caregiver/therapist rating scales. All designed to support planning and delivery of play-based coaching sessions.
• Caregiver-coaching FAQs page.

Detailed Contents List:

Page:

4 Information for Therapists

5. Research Overview- 1

6. Research Overview- 2

7. Research Overview- 3

8. References

9. Caregiver-Coaching FAQs

10. Parent/Caregiver Rating Scale

11. Pre-Therapy Rating Scale

12. Post-Therapy Rating Scale

13. Early Intervention Joint Plan

14. Parent/Caregiver Reflection Sheet (version 1)

15. Parent/Caregiver Reflection Sheet (version 2)

16. Toys and Activities List

17. First Words List

18. First Gestures List

19. First Signs List

20. Language Strategies- At a Glance

21. Language Strategies- Naming/Modeling

22. Language Strategies- Commenting

23. Language Strategies- Choices

24. Language Strategies- Pausing

25. Language Strategies- Following their Lead

26. Language Strategies- Copy and Add (expanding language and play)

27. Language Strategies- Use Gestures

28. Language Strategies- Say it Again and Again

29. Language Strategies- Reduce Questions

30. Language Strategies- Communication Temptations

31. Language Strategies- Verbal Routines

32. Language Strategies- Linguistic Mapping

33. Language Strategies- Top Tips

34. Toy Animals

35. Arts and Crafts

36. Balls

37. Blocks

38. Books

39. Bubbles

40. Toy Bus

41. Cars and Trucks

42. Doctor’s Kit

43. Dough

44. Toy Food

45. Instruments

46. Pop Fidget Toys

47. Potato Head

48. Puppets

49. Puzzles

50. Songs and Rhymes

51. Tea Set

52. Teddy Bears/Dolls

53. Threading Beads

54. Tool Kit

55. Train Set

56. Water Play

57. What’s in the Bag?

58. Wind up Toys

This pack is suitable for use all year round with a range of families.

All of the handouts are no-prep and ready to use straight away.

There are two versions included- one with US English spellings and one with UK/AUS English spellings.

Ideas for Use:

• Use the rating scales to monitor progress/help with planning before and after therapy intervention.
• Use the Joint Plan sheet to support therapy planning with the parent/caregiver.
• Provide the parent/caregiver with either of the reflection sheets during/after sessions to guide self-reflection.
• Use the toys and activities list to get an idea of the type of toys and games the family has available at home.
• Give parents/caregivers the first words, gestures, and/or signs lists so they can track their child’s progress.
• Use the handouts for parents and caregivers during caregiver-coaching sessions.
• Share the handouts with parents/caregivers or childcare providers during meetings.
• Send the handouts home in homework packets.
• Put the handouts on a bulletin board as a “toy of the week” or “strategy of the week”.
• Put these handouts in a binder and use them for your own reference.

Therapists and Educators love these play-based early language handouts:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bernadette D. says: “I love all of your resources. It makes planning sessions so much easier. Handouts are easy for parents/caregivers to follow.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sandra G. says: “Excellent resource! love that it makes planning so much easier and at the same time informative for the parents who at times wonder why I’m only playing and not doing therapy with the little ones.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meredith S. says: “This resource helped me as a provider and my families implement language strategies at home and in the clinic. This is super parent friendly and really gives amazing examples of the strategies.”