Alphabet Games

Today, in the playroom, J requested to play with alphabets. He loved playing with the alphabet beanbags. I supposed he loves the sensory when he touched those beanbags.

As usual, J arranged the beanbags according to alphabet. As he was given some holiday homework by his EIPIC teacher, I decided to use their material. However, J did not want to do the materials because he could not "feel" the fishes. They are too small. He is supposed to match the fishes onto the alphabets in the material.

Some of the "fishes" are on the left.
J is supposed to match the "fishes" onto the
alphabet in this material.
J find it too small to feel its presence.

Since J loved the alphabet beanbags, I decided to tinge it a little. After J arranged the beanbags according to alphabet, I got him to pick the "fishes" randomly from a container to match to the alphabet beanbags. However, after 4 tries, he did not want to proceed. I could see his little fingers having difficulty holding the "fishes" and the print, perhaps could be too small for him. So I made it into a turn-taking game with 3Es. Woohoo! We successfully finished matching the "fishes" against the alphabet beanbags.

Activities in the Playroom

The next task was to match the "fishes" onto the alphabets in the material. J straightaway rejected doing. I again, made it into a turn-taking game. Yes! We finished matching the alphabets in the materials.

Lastly, before keeping the beanbags into the bag, J picked a beanbag and we will shout out the letters, then keep the beanbags into the bag. I did the same with his cloth number blocks last year. And that was how he mastered his numbers. This is actually one of J's favourite activity.

Well, in building J for his social development, mastering numbers and alphabets are just beside the point. I turned it into a social and interactive activity - turn taking, eye contact and interactive attention span. There were full of celebration for his eye contact, with lots of hi-5s and 3Es. Please note that all these can only be done when J is in green light.

To understand the Son-Rise terminology, refer to the book Autism Breakthrough by Raun K. kaufman. It has many amazing methods to help a child in the Autism Spectrum.