Lidcombe News Edition 39th - Montreal Fluency

Hot TipsSome of you will have seen a few of these before but newcomers may like to trythem out. Some are ideas from my own clinic, and some were sent in by RosemarieHayhow and Lizzie Hunt.If you are looking for a new idea for a star chart, how about this one from Lizzie Huntin Cambridge, UK? Instead of a chart use a parcel, and instead of sticking on a star,take off a layer of paper! In other words „pass the parcel‟, with the prize at the end,to make praise for smooth talking extra special. This is good for children who need amore immediate type of reward.(See article above for full description)A parent of a child I have been seeing came up with another good idea for the sameprocess. Instead of stars her son won cardboard arrows, and when he had won therequisite number she laid them down as a Treasure Hunt trail which he then followeduntil he found his prize. (See article above for full description)More hot tips from Lizzie in Cambridge! One of her parents came up with this ideafor a reward. Instead of using a star chart the child drew a picture of the prize theywere going to win, cut it up like a jigsaw, and then won the pieces one by one. Thechild could then see the reward growing in front of his eyes! (See article above forfull description)One of Rosemarie‟s parents drew a page of stick people without faces and thereward was to put a smiley face sticker onto each one.Another idea on the star chart theme is to draw some sheep in a field and stick apiece of cotton wool onto each one as the reward. A similar idea would be to draw asnail with a spiral shell which is divided into segments, and then put a sticker, orcolour in each section.Again on the same theme, a parent of mine had the idea of making a train track (herson was mad on trains) and putting stickers into the sections. The final reward wasat the station where her son had drawn a picture of what he was going to win whenhe got there. (See article above for full description)One parent of Rosemarie‟s had the idea of drawing each letter of their child‟s nameonto a page in a scrap book. They made each letter quite wide so that there wasspace to fill it up with stars.12