With that being said, a pre-game activity helps foster the narrative skills for children.īefore opening the app, I have the client or group decide what monster, food, and cooking method we will use, and in what order we will do complete the task using the sequencing sheet I’ve created. Furthermore, a child’s ability to verbally create narratives has been linked to successful acquisition of literacy (Catts, Hogan, & Fey Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998 Tabors, Snow, & Dickinson, 2001). While reading a book and retelling the story has its time and place, incorporating an app which does not require clients to read allows for creativity and fun.

One of my favorite ways to use Toca Kitchen Monsters is to target sequencing or narrative skills. Yet, it has turned into so much more within the context of speech therapy. The premise of the app is simple: Slice, blend, boil, fry, and/or microwave a selection of food for one of two monsters. The developers at Toca Boca know how to entice an audience and grapple for our attention. Katie will also be joining the newly formed as a “Savy Guru”. Katie is a regular tweeter with the #SLPeeps on Twitter as She recently transitioned her blog, , to include SLP app reviews using an evidence based approach. is a second year graduate student in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of West Georgia. This is a guest post by Katie Millican, B.S.

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