Denise Szymczak MA, CCC/SLP
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 Taking turns in conversation

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 For kids to get the most out of communicating it needs to be 2-way. Kids learn to take turns by playing with grown-ups & other kids.Conversation is like a game. It has conventions about what each person should be doing to make it work.  Some kids have a hard time learning these & need them to be made explicit.   During interaction, partners signal each other that they are listening & they need to take turn  or it's someone else's turn. Some  common conversational cues are:

         -Non verbal: gaze, facial expression, touching, leaning forward , using & waiting, pointing , reaching
         -Verbal- questions, comments, acknowledgments, repeating, paraphrasing

Use these common conversational techniques to scaffold interaction for kids.    

For kids who are at earlier developmental stages, discoverers, lay the foundation by treating their responses as if they are talking to you.
       - interpret actions as communicaton
       - be very animated, with lots of intonation & facial. expression
       - use distinctive intonation patterns for questions & emotional expressions
      -OWL is essential when you're communicating with discoverers 
        - cue or turns just like you do with kids who are at a later stage

​Social Routines  work based on participants knowing what's expected in shared sequences of  words/sounds/actions.  Establishing routines is unimportant foundation for learning to take turns.  When. you are establishing your routines, consider incorporating multiple modalities ( photo/picute choices, core board, speech output device, sign) of communication to allow for all ability levels to participate. 
      





 
 
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