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    HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN PRESCHOOL

    LAMP WORDS FOR LIFE


    AT HOME!

    IN THIS ISSUE

    Letter to Families

    What is LAMP?

    How can I use it at


    home?

    DEAR FAMILIES,
    We know you love your children more than the world itself! We also
    know you want the best possible future for them! Our team here at
    HSE strives to teach your children communication skills and give
    families the resources necessary to make this dream possible. Our
    main focus in this program is developing communication skills and
    school readiness. One of the tools we, and many other educational
    professionals, have discovered to be most effective in encouraging
    and expanding communication among learners is LAMP: Words for
    Life. This can be as low-tech as a printed board like the one pictured
    above, or as high-tech as a device that includes the verbal output of
    words for seemingly endless word choices. LAMP can seem
    overwhelming to families who have never encountered it before.
    However, practice can be made very simple with a few activities at
    home that you are probably already doing! We are going to do Every child has
    everything we can at school to help your child develop their the ability to
    communication skills, but we will only be able to generalize these learn, grow, and
    skills across many settings if we partner with you at home! We would communicate!
    love to be your partners in your child's education!

    Lauryn Scheske, 2021.


    then you can expand their language
    by having them say, "eat cookie" or
    "drink juice".

    Super Simple Songs!


    We know our learners love to listen
    to and watch Super Simple Song
    videos! Use this as motivation to
    practice core vocabulary! When you
    various contexts and can have are watching these videos with your
    WHAT IS IT? several different meanings. child, just pick one of the words you
    The LAMP Words for Life board want to practice on their board or
    Throughout their school day, every device. Pause the song each time it
    has been designed to help
    activity is designed to promote the says the word. Then model how to
    learners develop, expand, or sup-
    use of this core vocabulary. The find the word and help your child
    plement verbal communication.
    more we can practice its use in copy you. Here are a couple of ideas:
    natural environments such as
    Our goal in CFL is to develop your
    during play and at home, the more One Little Finger:
    child's most natural and efficient
    form of communication. The learners will naturally use these
    board encourages this words.
    communication with pictures and,
    if on a device, verbal output.

    Each LAMP board or device can be


    simplified to meet your child's
    needs. At first, we will provide
    access to a limited number of
    words and as their communica-
    "Point your finger UP, point your
    tion skills grow and develop, we
    can increase the amount of core WHAT CAN I finger DOWN! PUT it on your head!"
    vocabulary words that they can
    access on their boards/devices. As
    DO AT HOME? Who Took The Cookie?:
    a team, we also like to work closely The best kind of activities to do at
    together with you at home to home to practice the use of these
    make sure we are providing your words are often the activities you
    child with access to core are already doing!
    vocabulary that they need to
    communicate their wants and Snacks! An interview
    needs with you. Snack time is a great opportunity with Jonathan
    to practice the use of the words
    Hames, the
    What is Core Vocabulary? "eat" and "drink". If your child is
    Core vocabulary makes up 70-90% already able to say these words or
    world's most
    of all of the words we say. These can access them consistently and innovative
    "Who ME? Yes YOU! NOT ME! Then
    words are relevant among quickly on their device, person.
    who??"

    Lauryn Scheske, 2021.


    Show them how to say "more" on their
    Super Simple Songs (cont'd)
    talker/board, and then continue the activity. For
    My Yellow Car:
    swinging, specifically, you can model how to say
    "big" or "little" to request a big push or a little push.

    Reading Books
    Though many of our learners are not reading yet,
    some of them enjoy looking through books or even
    listening to someone read a book to them. To
    "Let's GO for a drive IN MY yellow car!" promote communication during this activity, have
    your child request, "Turn" (pictured below) when
    Nursery Rhymes he or she wants to turn the page. They may begin
    Who doesn't love singing songs?! Many of the to request "turn" before you have even finished
    songs we all know and love have core vocabulary the page, but just roll with it! This will help your
    within them. child understand the relationship between saying
    "turn" and the turning of a page. Books are great
    "Itsy Bitsy Spider" for this purpose, not to mention the vocabulary
    "Itsy Bitsy Spider went UP the water spout. DOWN that is already within children's books! You can
    came the rain and washed the spider OUT. OUT point those out to your child as well!
    came the sun..."

    "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"


    "Twinkle, twinkle LITTLE star. How I wonder WHAT Ready, Set, GO!
    YOU are! UP above ..." Maybe your child likes
    piggyback rides, watching
    cars move down a ramp,
    or watching a ball roll
    down a ball tower: All of
    these activities create an
    Sensory Experiences opportunity for them to fill
    Many of our students has diverse sensory needs. in the phrase: Ready, Set,
    Some children seek pressure through hugs and GO! Choose whatever
    squeezes. Others may enjoy swinging or jumping. activity they enjoy, set it all
    These sensory-seeking up, and then say "Ready,
    desires also create set," and show them how
    opportunities to encourage to say "GO!" on their talker
    communication. Pick an or printed board. As they
    activity that your child enjoys, get more comfortable with
    begin the activity, then this, they will likely fill in the
    pause. phrase on their own!

    Lauryn Scheske, 2021.

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