Sasha from TheAutismHelper.com shows an adapted I Spy book that teaches real versus make-believe to non-verbal and minimally verbal children. Five pages show real items, five show make-believe ones like fish in the sky and worm pizza. Kids point to the right picture without speaking.
Hi, this is Sasha from TheAutismHelper.com, and this is a product preview of I Spy, an adapted book to work on real and make-believe. So if you've checked out my other I Spy book, which works on attributes, this is the same structure but working on that real and make-believe concept. My kids love the other I Spy book, so I want to use the same format to teach different skills, and real and make-believe is something that I really can be focusing on even with my students who are nonverbal. Included are instructions for setup and how to turn this into a really great multiple choice book with visual choices. So your kids don't need to be able to talk or write, just make a picture choice with each page. So this book follows the same language, which I love because a lot of my students with limited verbal capabilities are able to follow along. They're able to get into that routine of saying, "I spy with my little eye." It's really cute. I really love it. So there's 5 different pages for things that are real. Some of them have a cue like drink or a pet, and then some of them are just things that are real, and then there's 5 different for make-believe. I put these in order in here, but when I bind it, I'm going to mix it up. Um, and then here are the pieces. So for real versus make-believe, here are the options: hot chocolate, milk, and soap. So soap would be a make-believe drink because we don't drink that. Um, this one is things you see in the sky, so you wouldn't see a fish in the sky. That's make-believe. So here's for the real pages, and this one, like, a monkey doesn't live in an oven versus a monkey lives in a zoo or house. So which one is the real one? Um, and then here are the make-believe pictures. So a worm pizza is the make-believe food, and a pig eating pumpkin pie is the make-believe picture, and going to school on an alien spaceship is make-believe. So it's really going to look at more of a complex discrimination versus just attending to something based on color or shape. So I'm really excited to try this out with my kids. I think it's going to be challenging, but in a good way. Again, this was a product preview of "I Spy," an adapted book to work on real and make-believe, by TheAutismHelper.com.
