Speech Therapy & Autism Part 1

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Just finished a speech therapy session with an autistic child. So, before I tidy up, I thought I'd quickly talk you through what we've been working on. So, they're at the early stages of their communication journey. They're not using words yet, but they are communicating.

[00:00:15]They vocalize, they hand reach, they look. They show me when they want help.

[00:00:21]And what's been really lovely is they're starting to let me be a part of their play. That crunching is rainbow drops.

[00:00:30]They were all over the floor. At the moment, we're working on Oh.

[00:00:36]At the moment, we're working on building attention and exploring lots of different ways to communicate. So, today we used the rainbow stacker. They make a choice of which piece they'd like and then they stack them in their own way.

[00:00:53]So, that gives us lots of opportunities for choice making, turn taking, colors, requesting help, and shared attention.