02/05/2023 Working on Speech Sounds during Games

Ok, yes, this website is primarily based around providing strategies/ideas for things that a person might need to work on. However, I also want to point out that it's important to recognize your strengths. What are strengths? Strengths are things that you are good at. Why is it important to recognize strengths? Well, for a number of reasons. Knowing your strengths can help boost your confidence in situations. For example, if you know you are good at remembering what people say, it can help you feel more confident and comfortable participating in a conversation. It's also important to recognize that you, just like everyone else, have things that you are good at. It's possible that by modeling what you are good at around others, this will help others that might struggle with something that you're good at. For example, if you are good at greeting your co-workers, but one of your co-workers isn't, then by watching you interact with and greet others, your co-worker might get better at greeting others too.

So take some time to list 3 things you're good at. If you're not sure what you're good at, ask someone you trust. You could ask your friend, your parent, your teacher. They probably know some of your strengths really well, but they might not know all of them.

Here's some examples of strengths I've observed in my students over the years:


• Greeting others (saying “Hi“)
• Participating in small talk (small talk is short conversations talking about weekend plans, the weather, sports)
• Asking on-topic questions
• Following directions
• Reading comics out loud with different voices for different characters
• Following school rules. For example, waiting in line to get lunch.
• Reading and learning vocabulary
• Asking for help
• Sharing important information about interests
• Helping others
• Remembering information
• Drawing pictures
• Getting to class on time