Prepositions

Speech is an integral part of our daily world. Teaching key components of speech such as prepositions will benefit social interactions. I like to use figure play sets to teach prepositions. You can find sets of animals, character sets such as Disney, and other figures at various stores. For example if you had a Mickey Mouse figure you would say "Where is Mickey?" place Mickey on the box, behind the box, in front of the box, above the box, etc. The reason this works well is because you use a high interest character to teach the skill. Next ask the child to "Put Mickey on the box" Here is a short list of prepositions: in, on, under, beside, between, above, next to, and in front. After this skill is learned work on asking the child to place everyday objects in certain places such as "put your shoes under your bed" and "put your dishes in the sink"