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Dear Parents,
Thank you for choosing this game! You have made an excellent choice, providing your child
with many opportunities to learn and develop.
These instructions offer you several pointers and ideas for exploring the game materials
together with your child, and for applying them to a variety of games. Playing these games
encourages the development of different abilities and skills in your child, such as speaking
and listening, fine motor skills and concentration. But best of all, they are simply loads of
fun:learning naturally happens along the way. This educational game collection, however,
does not replace therapy. It simply provides impulses for speech development. If you think
your child’s speech skills are not developing ‘normally’, please take advantage of professional
assistance. Your doctor or pediatrician can provide you with referrals.
We wish you loads of fun playing and discovering together!
Your Children’s Inventors
General information
1. The games are arranged according to their level of difficulty. To simplify them, only bring
animals into play that the children already know. The other wooden figures and corre-
sponding cards can be left in the game box.
2. Look at and talk about the animals with your child, discovering interesting details. You can
share what you know, for example, about sheep; that sheep live in a herd on a large mead-
ow; that they eat grass, go baaa and have soft fur. Or you can ask simple questions. Where
does this animal live? What does it look like? What does it eat? In all games, make a point
of describing the animal and encourage your child to speak as well. Make the appropriate
animal calls and sounds together, with and without support from the CD.
3. If your child has conspicuous speech irregularities, you can offer excellent support and aid
by…
• ... allowing your child to finish sentences. Even when your child needs a bit more time,
avoid finishing sentences for him. Also avoid having your child repeat your sentences.
• ... repeating wrongly pronounced phonetics in their correct form (built into a sentence)
instead of criticizing and correcting your child.
• ... speaking slowly and clearly in short sentences.
• ... underscoring spoken words and phrases with facial expressions and gestures.
• ... catching and holding eye contact when speaking with your child.
• ... creating a comfortable environment for your child. Do not merely ‘test’ your child’s
knowledge with a series of questions; rather embed your questions and your child’s
answers in a conversation.
Game 1: Tell me what you know!
A cooperative matching game for 1 to 6 children ages 3 and older and a game guide to famil-
iarize players with the game and game materials.
Learning areas:
Precise observation, tactile sensitivity, speech and speech comprehension, vocabulary building