pictures/cards to help with sequencing

[sphil]

School have said that DS1 needs help with his sequencing skills (when talking). Bink (on another thread) has given me lots of good ideas but I also wondered whether there was anywhere I could buy or download story cards that a child (with fairly sophisticated tastes in stories) could put into order and then retell?

And while we're on the subject, anyone know of a really good set of picture cards I could use with DS2 for matching and speech stuff? The pictures we're using atm aren't high contrast enough for him - for example he muddles the train and the butterfly because the butterfly has spots on it that are exactly the same pattern/colour as the train's wheels! Only realised this after about three weeks of plugging the same matching activity . There would have to be two of each picture and preferably a number of pictures of each object iyswim - eg four pictures of different cars.

Thanks all - I KNOW someone will know the answer to this

Hi sphil what i did with my ds was take real life pictures with a polaroid camara. That seem to help my son as we took pictures of things he ate, played with etc..........., hope this is useful for you.

We have found that using before and after arrows with usual books has helped.
So, "What happened before Floppy rescued the Puppies?" Before arrow pointing to previous page, then "what happened after" with after arrow. Really labour it. "Yes, BEFORE Floppy found the puppies the house was on fire" Finally repeat story using first, next last, before after etc.
Also be aware that he may learn some sequencing by rote and not generalise it well.

I have a lot of simple three part sequences but haven't found more complex ones.

Thanks both of you. Just bumping this once to see if anyone can add ideas.

Sphil - the orchard games Animal Lotto has really nice clear pictures although you are matching to a board rather than a second set of pictures. They also do an animal pairs game (pig and piglets snap) with mothers and babies but there's a few sets of each mother and baby so you could pair by size. Someone else gave us a Marks and Spencers Noah's ark pairs set that was nice and clear as well though all animals also. Ds2 has visual perception problems as you know but does seem to get on well with those cards.

I don't know if you have come across sense toys - they may have something useful.

Ds1 has seen a speech therapist recently because of his stammering and she played a board game with him where you had stories to sequence and retell. I can't remember what it was called but it might be worth looking for something similar for Christmas presents . Poor Ds2 is going to a get stocking full of therapy things .

Also just thought when we were grouping words I made quite a few clear cards for Ds2 using pictures off the internet and laminating. A good source of animal pictures is the Schleich toys on the Platform 8 toys site - they are photographed on plain white backgrounds and really lovely and clear. I also went onto the Waitrose shopping online site and printed off pictures off fruit and vegetables etc - again tends to be on a nice white background.

Thanks Saker - have got the Sense toys catalogue and will have a look.

Hi Sphil - saw my name ...

I think your sequencing cards idea for ds1 is great. I saw this on the US Amazon site , which seems on the right lines, & has links to other similar products too.

Again, your ds1 may still be too little for this, but "idea webs" have been good for ds - where you get a blank sheet of paper & draw a big circle in the middle with other circles radiating out from it, & you give him an idea (eg "a day at the zoo") for the central circle and then he fills in (or tells you what to put in) the other circles. It seems to help a lot with making distinctions between "important" facts & detail (not being able to distinguish b/w those being inherent to sequencing problems - I think).

We had some great ones ages ago, made by something like Colour watch or match or ......??? I would advise against any that are drawings and always go for photos. Have you ever looked at the Flash! CD? Its really good, 1000s of digital photos with different categories and themes. I bought mine years ago but you should be able to find it on Google. In fact, that would be my best recommendation. Taking your own photos is good, especially for sequencing I think, but you can't do it for everything and keep up. HTH

Hi Bink
The book looks good - will order it when I get off here. I think ideas web would work too - they do a simple version of it at school. Will let you know how it goes. Thanks!

Davros - have tried googling Flash CD and Flash digital photos but no luck. Do you have any other details?

here it is. Maybe if you type in the correct name then Google will find it somewhere in the UK.