a) Eye contact
Goal: Looks at others to start / continue interaction
b) Verbal communication
Goals: Clear single words
- If really clear: add word e.g. verb (want, push etc)
c) Interactive attention span
Goal: 4 minutes or more
Techniques:
1) JOIN! JOIN! JOIN!
-If in doubt – JOIN!
2) Only build on really strong green lights
-Example of Green lights are:
-Clear words
-Words with looks
-Taking your hand and moving you
-Really long looks
3) Get him to physically participate
-For example:
-Touch buttons to get what you want
-Roll ball in skittles
-Rub board
-Go and collect something from across the room
c) Flexibility
Allows peripheral variations to repetitious / rigid games
-For example:
-in bubble game – get puppets to blow bubbles,
- Get bubbles to land on our noses,
- Blow small baby bubbles.
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