Hi there- Does anyone have any tips or drills that worked with your kids to get them to learn pronouns correctly? Other than modeling the correct pronoun usage, Im wondering if there was anything you did with your kids that helped them along. I think we all know this is a big challenge for ASD kids. Thanks!
This is an activity we were given by our speech therapist.
Write the words HE and SHE on 2 separate pieces of paper. Then give the child a bunch of pictures of girls/women and boys/men. Have the child sort the pictures by placing them on the correct pronoun.
We also have the Pronoun Parade flashcards (he, she, they) from Different Roads to Learning.
http://www.difflearn.com/products.asp?dept=13
Our therapist advised us that children should learn to use I and YOU correctly before moving on to other pronouns. Good luck!
I like the sorting idea posted above. We also use puppets to model proper pronoun usage. Webber makes some pronoun cards that you can find at superduperinc.com.Thats great advice, Im going to order the flashcards now.
I assume he needs to be completely versed in "boy vs. girl" before moving on to "He/She", or should they be taught simultaneously?
We are working on I and You, but he reverses them all the time, its really tough, I wish I knew a better way to teach this besides modeling.
Would love to hear other successes with this from any other parents whose kids "mastered" pronouns.
Thanks!
[QUOTE=WIMomOf2]This is an activity we were given by our speech therapist.
Write the words HE and SHE on 2 separate pieces of paper. Then give the child a bunch of pictures of girls/women and boys/men. Have the child sort the pictures by placing them on the correct pronoun.
We also have the Pronoun Parade flashcards (he, she, they) from Different Roads to Learning.
http://www.difflearn.com/products.asp?dept=13
Our therapist advised us that children should learn to use I and YOU correctly before moving on to other pronouns. Good luck!
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This is what Ryan's ST is working on with Ryan. He does know the diffrence he just is not using he/she in sentences.
We used the "action" webber flashcards and on back wrote in pen:
"she is eating ice cream"
"he is jumping"
"they are running..." ect.. the I, me and you we did real pics and model all day with produced sitiuations or watching TV narrarate what the scene is:) Reading books and pointing out the correct pronouns and actions helped too:)
I corrected her all the time and eventually I stopped noticing any mistakes..sometimes she gets the tenses get mixed up now but she quickly corrects herself:) Good luck:)
Thanks a lot for the link. My son does hae troubel with he /she and I / you also. I correct him but your idea is great. Thank you so much!
My autistic son struggled with using I instead of his name, but that cleared up by helping him correct himself. He still slips once in awhile, even though it has been a few years since the problem was "fixed".
My younger son is struggling with s/he, but he knows the difference between boy and girl so this might be a another sign of his disfluency (he has some mild stuttering too). He's bilingual, and it might be hard to access the right word on the fly.
A lot of people swear by the book "Teach Me Language" so you might find some help there.
Good luck with everything.