The Interaction Coach

Joyce Olson
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You can help your child learn to talk with speech-language pathologist Joyce Olson of The Interaction Coach. Listen to daily tips that make every interaction a learning opportunity for speech and language development. Whether your child needs to start using words, make longer sentences, or improve social communication, this podcast is for you.

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  1. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Mutual Attention: Imitate unfamiliar action

    EPISODE 182

    SOCIAL INTERACTION: Mutual Attention: Imitate unfamiliar action

    Download the quick checklist to find your child’s current level. Download the list of all skills and activities for Level 6. It’s a summary of each episode content that you can use as a reminder or checklist. Your child’s mutual attention skills have helped them learn how to observe your actions and pick up on important information. Now they can use those skills to imitate new actions. Teaching some gestures and sign language is a perfect fit for this level. Your child can watch your model and imitate. We’ll talk more about this when we get to the Language domain. Today’s activity: Continue to use social games, songs and finger plays to strengthen your child’s ability to do actions along with you. Add in a new action and encourage them to try it. Visit www.TheInteractionCoach.com to find courses for parents that help you target your child’s specific needs. Help more parents find the podcast—leave a review in your app. Thanks!

    17 min
  2. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Joint Attention: Pay with bubbles to shape looking where you point

    EPISODE 183

    SOCIAL INTERACTION: Joint Attention: Pay with bubbles to shape looking where you point

    Joint attention is sharing the focus on some other location—a shared point of focus. An important part of sharing the focus is that we check in with the other person’s face to see what they are looking at and how they are reacting. Your child established joint attention for nearby objects during Level 5. Now we need to help them move that attention to objects farther away. This supports your child’s skills in following directions. It also helps them practice thinking about 2 things at the same time—you and your reactions plus the other thing and what you want them to do with it. Today’s activity: Blow bubbles. Wait for your child to turn and show interest in getting you to do it again (using attention, gesture, sound or word). Help them notice a bubble by pointing and acting excited. Help them notice what your finger is pointing at by moving your finger closer to the bubble. If they don’t follow your point, move your whole body closer to the bubble while you keep pointing. Visit www.TheInteractionCoach.com to find courses for parents that help you target your child’s specific needs. Help more parents find the podcast—leave a review in your app. Thanks! Download the quick checklist to find your child’s current level here. Download the list of all skills and activities for Level 6. It’s a summary of each episode content that you can use as a reminder or checklist.

    7 min
  3. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Joint attention: Point and say “put in”

    EPISODE 184

    SOCIAL INTERACTION: Joint attention: Point and say “put in”

    You can extend your child’s attention to places far away by pointing to an object of interest. Your child is used to taking turns putting objects into a box near you. Now you can extend that familiar activity to putting away in a location that’s farther away. Your child depends on your gestures to help them understand your directions at this level. Today’s activity: Give your child an object and point to a location where you want them to put it. Say, “Put it in,” as you point. Download the quick checklist to find your child’s current level here. Download the list of all skills and activities for Level 6. It’s a summary of each episode content that you can use as a reminder or checklist. Visit www.TheInteractionCoach.com to find courses for parents that help you target your child’s specific needs. Help more parents find the podcast—leave a review in your app. Thanks!

    7 min
  4. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turn Taking: Take this to someone nearby

    EPISODE 185

    SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turn Taking: Take this to someone nearby

    6.185 SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turn Taking: Take this to someone nearby At this level your child will learn to deliver an object to someone nearby that you name, do joint play with an object, and hand you a toy if they need help to make it work. You can expand the ways your child takes turns with different objects, more people and extending the distance they go. Earlier practice with turn taking has helped your child learn that they enjoy giving things to other people (sharing) and they know how to show they want something back. This makes them more comfortable when using toys together with another person. Today’s activity: Use a wagon (or box with a pull string) to deliver toys to someone. Your child can roll a car down the ramp then you retrieve it, put it in the wagon and pull it back to your child. Change roles, so your child gets turns to deliver with the wagon. Expand this to delivering toys to other family members. Learn about the parent course — Help your child talk: Six strategies that boost your child’s communication skills. Visit www.TheInteractionCoach.com to find courses for parents that help you target your child’s specific needs. Help more parents find the podcast—leave a review in your app. Thanks!

    8 min
  5. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turntaking: Joint play with a toy

    EPISODE 186

    SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turntaking: Joint play with a toy

    Your child will play together with you, sharing a toy. Don’t think of this as “work” because then you will start to think there’s a “right” way for your child to play. You can model things to do with the toy, but your child doesn’t have to do the same thing. You are PLAYING: go with the flow and have fun. Today’s activity: Play side-by-side or face-to-face with your child. Share some toys and model things to do with them: feed doll with cup, put doll in bed. Offer a toy to your child so you can take turns. Add a new action or object sometimes to extend the variety of things your child knows about playing with the toys. Learn about the parent course — Help your child talk: Six strategies that boost your child’s communication skills Visit www.TheInteractionCoach.com to find courses for parents that help you target your child’s specific needs. Help more parents find the podcast—leave a review in your app. Thanks!

    5 min
  6. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turn Taking: Put cards into a slot

    EPISODE 187

    SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turn Taking: Put cards into a slot

    You can add variety to turn taking by using some new materials. Variety adds more interest for your child. Remember, when taking turns you need to wait for your child to take a turn. Avoid saying, “Do this” because you’re not doing a direction-following activity. Your child can do what they want to do when you are interacting socially. By making this fun and interesting, though, your child is more likely to do the action you are showing them. Today’s activity: Cut a slot in the top of a shoe box. Take turns putting a playing card into the box. Learn about the parent course — Help your child talk: Six strategies that boost your child’s communication skills Visit www.TheInteractionCoach.com to find courses for parents that help you target your child’s specific needs. Help more parents find the podcast—leave a review in your app. Thanks!

    4 min
  7. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turn Taking: Chase the ball

    EPISODE 188

    SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turn Taking: Chase the ball

    Your child will enjoy a simple game with lots of action and a little competition. Today’s activity: Roll a ball, point and say, “Get the ball!” Both of you chase it, but let child reach it first. Pick up child and run back to the starting line to repeat the action. Learn about the parent course — Help your child talk: Six strategies that boost your child’s communication skills Visit www.TheInteractionCoach.com to find courses for parents that help you target your child’s specific needs. Help more parents find the podcast—leave a review in your app. Thanks!

    2 min
  8. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turn Taking: Give toy to get help

    EPISODE 189

    SOCIAL INTERACTION: Turn Taking: Give toy to get help

    Your child will initiate a request—a major achievement! When they need help getting a toy to work, they hand it to you so you can make it go. This is one of the big payoffs for all that turn taking practice you’ve been doing. Hurray! Today’s activity: When you see your child needs help, hold out your hand as you say “Help.” Don’t expect your child to say anything. You are teaching that when they hand it to you, you will help them fix it. After you have done this many times, your child will learn they can approach you to ask for help. Showing you the object is their way to indicate they want help. Learn about the parent course — Help your child talk: Six strategies that boost your child’s communication skills Help more parents find the podcast—leave a review in your app. Thanks!

    3 min
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You can help your child learn to talk with speech-language pathologist Joyce Olson of The Interaction Coach. Listen to daily tips that make every interaction a learning opportunity for speech and language development. Whether your child needs to start using words, make longer sentences, or improve social communication, this podcast is for you.

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  • Creator
    Joyce Olson
  • Episodes
    234
  • Seasons
    6
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    © 2020 The Interaction Coach
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