The use of visuals can help children organize their thoughts and ideas before verbalizing them. Visuals can often help children be more fluent in their retell or story (example: less use of "um" within their story), be more detailed, and overall just be more organized. It is similar to how we encourage children to use graphic organizers to aid in their writing process- graphic organizers can also help with their narrative language! Visuals can consist of picture cues, written cues, object reminders, etc. The hope is that with time and practice, students will learn to provide themselves with cues on their own to aid in their verbal organization (example: writing down transition words such as first, next, and last OR 1, 2, and 3 before providing a retell.) Some examples that we use in speech are below
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