Using Wordless Videos for Kids in your Speech Therapy Activities
Wordless videos for kids can be a powerful tool in speech therapy, providing a unique and engaging way for students to learn and practice their speech and language skills.
Read on to learn how you can target many speech therapy IEP goals when you use wordless videos for speech therapy activities with highly engaging activities.
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Here’s Why Wordless Videos for Speech Therapy are Great:
Wordless Videos for Teaching Inferencing
Wordless videos can be a great way to help students learn and practice their inferencing skills. By watching a video without any dialogue, students are forced to rely on visual cues and context to understand what is happening on screen.
Higher-level comprehension skills, like inferencing, can easily be targeted with wordless shorts.
Stopping the video while it is playing, wordless videos provide great opportunities for teaching cause and effect, predictions, and answering implicit questions like ‘how’ and ‘why.’
This can be a challenging but rewarding speech therapy activity, as it helps students to develop their ability to interpret and understand language in a fun and engaging way.
Wordless Videos for Social Skills
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Wordless videos can also be used to help students work on social skills, perspective-taking, and social inferencing. They provide a great opportunity to practice problem-solving, understanding and identifying facial expressions, body language, and emotions.
Try using the phrase ‘I wonder’ while watching the videos to elicit conversation and social inferencing.
Add wordless videos for kids to your social skills groups for engaging social-emotional learning lessons that your students will ask for and learn from!
Wordless Videos for Narrative Skills and Summarizing
A speech therapist might use a wordless video to help a student practice their narrative skills by asking them to create a story based on what they see. This can be done both verbally and in writing.
Telling students they are the “author” encourages their creativity. By asking students to come up with their own dialogue or narratives based on what they see on screen, therapists can work on narrative language skills.
Incorporating narrative story icons (i.e., like the Story Champs program), will provide students with the visual cues they need. Graphic Organizers are helpful for students with their narrative language skills while watching wordless videos.
A helpful summarizing graphic organizer to use with wordless videos is using the SWBST framework.
Somebody
Wanted
But
So
Then
Wordless Videos for Vocabulary
Wordless videos can be used to target a wide range of language goals, depending on the needs of the student.
For example, a therapist might use a wordless video to help a student practice their vocabulary by asking them to describe what they see on screen. Wordless videos provide excellent opportunities to practice Core vocabulary too for both verbal and AAC users. Starting, stopping, and replaying the video provides multiple opportunities for exposure and practice.
Wordless Videos for Mixed Groups
When you are struggling to plan speech therapy lessons for your mixed groups and you don’t seem to have the right speech therapy materials to target articulation, language, voice, and/or fluency all at the same time-wordless videos are to the rescue!
Overall, wordless videos for kids can be a valuable tool in speech therapy, providing a unique and engaging way for students to practice their speech and language skills and express themselves creatively.
Whether you are working on vocabulary, narrative skills, social skills, or other goal areas, wordless videos can be a fun and effective way to engage your students and help them progress in their therapy goals! Use these therapy activities for direct instruction and generalization. The uses are endless!
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Read the blog Using Short Video in Speech by Digital SLP for more great ideas on how wordless videos can be used in speech therapy.
