Core Word WANT
Words of the Week: WANT
Training Video
School DAY - IDEAS - Communication Workshop
1. Any choice making or requesting activity allows you to model WANT. Take turns making
choices and modeling “I want that!” as you choose an object/toy/color/activity/word
2. Birthdays and Christmas: Make list of things you WANT to receive as gifts, e.g. “For my birthday, I want ___”. Extend to include what other people might WANT, e.g. “My Mum wants ___; My sister wants ___”. If students cannot find words in their AAC system, they could use catalogues to find things that they want.
3. Plan a party and make a list of food you WANT to serve and eat, e.g. “At my party I want ___”. You could also plan other party details such as: decorations, party games, birthday cake ideas, people to invite, etc.
4. Many cooking activities may involve choices, allowing opportunity for modeling and use of WANT. For example, choices for: pizza toppings when making pizza, sandwich fillings when making sandwiches, spreads when making toast, ingredients/flavourings when making milkshakes/smoothies/muffins, decorations when making cakes/cupcakes, fruits when making juices/fruit salad, vegetables when making soup/salad, etc.
5. Discuss free time and playtime, allowing student to talk about what they WANT to play with, what they games they WANT to do, who they WANT to play with, etc.
6. Working on protesting and rejecting, i.e. what the students DO NOT WANT, by presenting highly desirable and motivating items, alongside non-preferred items. Some examples of things that students may protest and say ‘I don’t WANT that!’ to include: plastic insects and spiders, water spray bottles/guns, sticky/gooey things, boring things, etc.
7. Discuss places students want to go, e.g.. “I want to go to ___”. Make a travel list plan, a weekend/holiday plan, a poster of favourite places, etc.
2. Birthdays and Christmas: Make list of things you WANT to receive as gifts, e.g. “For my birthday, I want ___”. Extend to include what other people might WANT, e.g. “My Mum wants ___; My sister wants ___”. If students cannot find words in their AAC system, they could use catalogues to find things that they want.
3. Plan a party and make a list of food you WANT to serve and eat, e.g. “At my party I want ___”. You could also plan other party details such as: decorations, party games, birthday cake ideas, people to invite, etc.
4. Many cooking activities may involve choices, allowing opportunity for modeling and use of WANT. For example, choices for: pizza toppings when making pizza, sandwich fillings when making sandwiches, spreads when making toast, ingredients/flavourings when making milkshakes/smoothies/muffins, decorations when making cakes/cupcakes, fruits when making juices/fruit salad, vegetables when making soup/salad, etc.
5. Discuss free time and playtime, allowing student to talk about what they WANT to play with, what they games they WANT to do, who they WANT to play with, etc.
6. Working on protesting and rejecting, i.e. what the students DO NOT WANT, by presenting highly desirable and motivating items, alongside non-preferred items. Some examples of things that students may protest and say ‘I don’t WANT that!’ to include: plastic insects and spiders, water spray bottles/guns, sticky/gooey things, boring things, etc.
7. Discuss places students want to go, e.g.. “I want to go to ___”. Make a travel list plan, a weekend/holiday plan, a poster of favourite places, etc.
8. Use music and singing to model WANT, to choose types of music, musical instruments, songs to sing, songs to listen to, choices within a song (e.g. animals for Old McDonald’s farm).
9. Take a poll of favourite TV shows/movies, letting students say what they WANT to watch on the weekend.
10. Pair WANT with some simple action words, for fun interactive action games. Students can choose to: jump, spin, walk, run, dance, sing, etc. Take turns to make a choice such as: “I want to jump!”, then everybody can jump.
11. During craft/art time, you can talk about what you WANT to make, e.g. “I want to make a paper plane”. There may also be choices of colours and materials when WANT can be used.
12. Create digital books (using Pictello, Book Creator, Powerpoint) for any of these activities - combining photos and videos with text of students messages/writing, e.g. “I want to go to __”, “I want to play with ___”, “I want to make __”
13. Watch the Angelman Syndrome Foundation Communication Training Series video that covers teaching “want”: youtu.be/pZ2eaYnclak and www.angelman.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/four-core.pdf
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