Weekly Content Update | Bridge to Verbal Imitation & Inferencing with Multiple Choices
This Week at Gemiini
This week we've added clips that pair motor and verbal imitation to motivate children who have mastered motor imitation to begin producing speech. Our library of inferencing clips also continues to grow with the addition of clips that model inferencing the answer to a question from an array of multiple choices.
Pairing Motor & Verbal Imitation
Pairing silly vocalizations with engaging movements is a fun way to use interactive play to bridge the gap from motor to verbal imitation. Our newest additions to the Motor Imitation facet pair actions with vocalizations representing sounds made by inanimate objects, toys, or animals (in one activity, a child repeats, "Choo-choo," while pushing a toy train engine back and forth, and in another she says, "Sssss," while imitating slithering like a snake).
It's fun to play pretend, and your child will enjoy hearing you make silly sounds. Prompting imitation while pairing verbalizations with actions is a low-pressure play activity that motivates many students to make attempts at speech production. The activities modeled in these skits can easily be incorporated into play sessions with your child at home, and the possible pairings you can model to suit the specific interests of your child are unlimited. Our clips can be found in Verbal Behavior → Imitation → Motor Imitation → Stage 5 - Bridge to Verbal Imitation.
If you're new to pairing motor and verbal imitation, check out the pre-made Vocalizing Action Sounds video assignment in the Motor Imitation category of QuickStart Skills.
Inferencing Using Visual Multiple Choice
In the new Inferencing Using Visual Multiple Choice clips, an adult gives a child a series of clues about a person, place, or thing. The child and audience are prompted to guess what the adult is speaking about by choosing from a limited selection of possible answers. Each of the multiple choice answers is represented visually on the screen.
Providing a list of possible answers gives students who are just beginning to practice inferencing a foothold. As their skills develop, they will rely less on the list of multiple choice answers and will become more adept at discovering the answer through reasoning and critical thinking.
The new inferencing clips are located in Skills → Inferences → Visual Multiple Choice. Be sure to check out last week's content update for more on using Gemiini to teach inferencing skills.
Image Words
This week's image word additions include new food items in Spoken Language → People, Places, Things → Food and animal additions to Spoken Language → People, Places, Things → Animals → Birds.
For help using these or any of our clips in your student's assignments, schedule a call with one of our product specialists. If you're having technical trouble or need help getting started, check out the articles in our Knowledge Base. If you're looking for clips that don't exist on the site, please send a content request to videos@gemiini.org.