Ming teaches strategies for children who speak in sentences to combine words into structured utterances. Concrete sequencing like boy puts on shoe, ties shoelace, goes out works best with flashcards and board games that require verbal reasoning and repeated practice across daily activities.
Sentence level is where the kid is most probably a little mature, and they're able to speak in sentences. And therefore you can bargain with them a little bit and tell them what they're supposed to do. At this level, we give them a bunch of teaching materials that are 2D, like flashcards, pictures, even on iPad to save time. We want to give as much practice as we can. A lot of times the 2D materials are cards that are sequencing cards. For instance, it's like a boy puts on a shoe, the boy ties a shoelace, the boy goes out of the door. Other than the sequencing at sentence level, if you do board games, the reason why is because there are specific sentences and different structures. We want to also teach them game rules so that they can do some verbal reasoning and we can ask them why questions, and how do we do a naturalistic approach. With sentence level, you try to speak with the sentences that you have taught and the structured tasks, and you bring it every day and keep on repeating it to them when you're playing around with them doing chores or whatever.
