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Just Play! Expanding Expressive Language

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    [MUSIC]
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    >> Caitlin, what
    do you want?
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    >> I want to eat.
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    >> You want to
    eat the pie?
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    So with the fruit sorter,
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    there's obviously a lot
    that you can work on.
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    But initially, I
    wanted her to choose
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    the toy because
    especially with kids that
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    have issues engaging,
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    you get more bang
    for your buck if you
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    let them choose
    and have control,
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    and then you join
    them in their play.
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    Open it. Oh, look.
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    Say, take off.
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    >> Off.
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    >> Take off.
    What's inside?
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    >> Say, open. Open it.
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    >> I'm hungry.
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    >> I'm hungry. What
    kind of fruit?
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    >> Red.
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    >> A red fruit?
    Red grapes.
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    >> Red grapes.
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    >> Caitlin's waiting
    for her turn.
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    >> Yummy in my tummy.
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    [LAUGHTER]
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    >> Yummy in my tummy.
    Yum, yum, yum.
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    And you can still work on
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    the skills that you
    need to target.
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    So I was still able
    to target colors.
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    Do you want
    yellow or green?
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    >> Green.
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    >> Green. Get green.
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    >> Green.
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    >> Green. Can we put
    it in the pie? Put in.
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    I was able to incorporate
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    her using the core board,
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    which she's working on,
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    to ask for colors.
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    Labeling, she
    labeled fruit.
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    >> No.
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    >> I want more.
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    >> More fruit. Look, Bud,
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    you have two bananas.
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    One, two.
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    And then my friend, Bud,
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    came over, and he's
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    a very imaginative
    little person.
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    So any way you
    can incorporate.
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    And you get to
    know your kids.
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    You know what works.
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    So he likes to act
    things out a lot.
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    So I was able to get him
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    counting and requesting
    all through play.
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    >> Yummy.
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    >> You have all
    the bananas.
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    How many do you have?
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    >> Yummy.
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    >> Can we count
    them? Let's count.
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    >> One.
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    >> One.
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    >> Two.
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    >> Here. One. Help me.
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    >> Two.
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    >> Two.
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    >> Three.
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    >> Three.
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    >> Four.
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    >> Four.
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    >> Five.
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    >> Five.
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    >> Six.
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    >> Six.
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    >> Seven.
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    That's a lot of bananas.
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    >> Yummy.
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    >> Yum, yum, yum.
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    And she is working
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    on turn taking
    and sharing also,
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    as everybody is when
    they're four, I think.
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    And use the card again.
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    And also, she was sharing.
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    In the game, we
    modeled sharing.
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    Here's what it looks
    like when you share
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    something with somebody.
    Can I have a bite?
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    Will you share? Sharing.
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    Thank you for sharing.
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    There's so much social,
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    academic, even direction
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    positional in, out.
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    All of those
    concepts that are
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    so fundamental can be
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    worked on with
    pretty much any toy.
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    And one thing that I have
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    learned is that even
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    though she got to
    choose the toy,
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    if I control
    the environment
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    and control the materials,
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    it just means she's
    going to have to use
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    her language that much
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    more to get
    what she wants.
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    And that's what we want,
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    because that's how
    they're going to get to
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    be more independent.
    Hands down.
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    >> Help.
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    >> Help.
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    High five. Good work.
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    [MUSIC]
Title:
Just Play! Expanding Expressive Language
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
04:50

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