Fall Early Language Handouts - Autumn Caregiver Coaching Handouts

Do you work in early intervention and/or support young/pre-school children with expressive language delay?

Do you support families in the home to use language strategies during daily routines and family activities?

Are you looking for an evidence-based resource to support your early intervention therapy delivery throughout the autumn/fall, that doesn't involve any preparation?

These evidence-based fall-themed Early Language handouts have been designed to support early intervention therapists to coach parents/caregivers to use various early language strategies in a range of engaging, low-cost, autumnal activities. A variety of ready-to-use, parent-friendly handouts are included within this pack.

CONTENTS

⭐ 12 Language Strategy Handouts:

Each language facilitation strategy is outlined in caregiver-friendly terms with ideas of how they can be used with a few different fall-themed activities.

Language Strategies included:

Naming/Modeling

Commenting

Offer Choices

Pausing

Following their Lead

Copy and Add

Use Gestures

Say it Again and Again

Reduce Questions

Communication Temptations

Verbal Routines

Linguistic Mapping

⭐ 17 Activity Handouts:

17 simple, low-cost summer activity handouts have been provided.

Each handout includes an explanation about the activity, suggested target words, and examples of how different language strategies can be used with the same activity.

Some of the activities have visuals that can be used alongside (i.e., use the visuals when out on a nature walk or when on a leaf hunt).

Activities included:

Apple Picking

Blackberry Picking

Visit the Farm

Pumpkin Patch

Pumpkin Painting (includes visuals)

Pumpkin Carving (includes visuals)

Jumping in Leaves

Jumping in Muddy Puddles

Go on a Leaf Hunt (includes 2 sets of visuals)

Collect Fall Treasures (includes visuals)

Rainy Days

Nature Walk (includes visuals)

Cooking/Baking

Fall Sensory Play

Fall Crafts

Fall Books

Fall Songs and Rhymes (includes visuals)

* Please note, some of these pages are the same as those in the Spring Early Language Handouts. This has been reflected in the pricing and inclusion of additional visuals for this set of handouts.

Ideas for use:

• You can use these as handouts for parents and caregivers during caregiver-coaching sessions.
• Share these with parents/caregivers or childcare providers during meetings.
• Send home in homework packets.
• Put them on a bulletin board as an “activity of the week”.
• Put them in a binder and use them for your own reference.

Download includes both US and UK English versions. Please check you have the correct version open before printing.

Love these handouts? Check out the seasonal bundle of Early Language Handouts here.