Enhancing children's speaking abilities

Bag code: EDUCO59210025 Days: Two training days ("Today’s training 5 hours"). Time: 10 training hours. Targeted participants: Speech therapists and special education specialists - teachers in inclusion and general education schools - parents with children suffering from speech difficulties - students of education and psychology colleges wishing to specialize in speech. Program overview: This program focuses on enhancing children's speech abilities (definition - types - characteristics - goals - positives - negatives .. etc). It will be presented through the following units: Initial training unit: Developing listening skills and language comprehension Second training unit: Enhancing pronunciation and language production Program objectives: - To enable the trainee to identify the most important basic speech abilities required for child development. - To enable the trainee to employ practical strategies to enhance listening and language comprehension skills. - To enable the trainee to apply innovative exercises and activities to improve pronunciation and sound production. - To design an initial practical plan to enhance children's speech abilities. Program topics: Initial training unit: (Developing listening skills and language comprehension): Auditory awareness • Recognizing environmental sounds and distinguishing between them. • Perceiving similar speech sounds. • Games and techniques to activate auditory awareness. Directed listening • Using illustrated stories as a training tool. • Techniques for retelling and predicting events. • Enhancing auditory attention through dialogue. Understanding vocabulary and sentences • Activities to enrich new vocabulary. • Matching exercises with words and pictures. • Understanding simple and complex instructions. Auditory interaction • Role of sound imitation and immediate responses. • Group games to activate interaction skills. • Training on language responses in daily life situations. Second training unit: (Enhancing pronunciation and language production): Developing articulation movements • Exercises for the mouth, tongue, and lips. • Breathing exercises and air control. • Movement activities to stimulate vocal flexibility. Producing individual sounds • Teaching articulation in a simplified way. • Exercises for difficult and similar sounds. • Verbal play activities to increase phonetic mastery. Building words and sentences • Transition from syllables to full words. • Exercises on gradually increasing short sentences. • Using pictures and cards to form sentences. Advanced practical activities • Free conversation using stories. • Role-playing to reinforce language use. • Self-assessment and error correction. Contents of the kit: PowerPoint 106 Trainer’s guide 71 Trainee’s guide 64 Activities 4 Introductory guide 4 References 4 Evaluation and data forms 6 Pre- and post-tests 10 Videos 4 Pictures 12 Mind maps 1 Brochure 1 Training kit model: Please click here to view the training kit model