Speech Therapy Placemats 6-Pack: Autism Learning Aids and Visual Supports

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• 🎉 Mealtimes are perfect for Celebrating Progress: Smarty Mats serve as simple communication tools and speech therapy resources suitable for home, daycare, and educational settings. They are crafted to enable parents and caregivers to successfully support communication and speech growth for children with Autism, speech delays, communication challenges, non-verbal children, and other special needs throughout their daily mealtime activities. The Smarty Mats 6-pack features three thoughtfully designed mats, each aimed at enhancing and broadening speech and communication abilities as well as fostering overall functional communication skills. With two mats of each design, you'll have the best opportunities for effective modeling and increased engagement.
• 🪄Inspired By: For children and toddlers with speech delays, communication delays, autism, sensory issues, non verbal children, and other special needs, mealtimes can be an overwhelming and frustrating time of day. Smarty Mats aims to not only offer communcation strategies for visual processors, but to function as a tool that turns mealtimes into enagaged moments of communication and speech development, facilitated by you and Smarty Mats!
• 🍎Smarty Mats Step 1: Step 1 is designed to simplify your approach, and reduce overwhelm in mastering foundational communication skills. Visual aids assist in the basics of mealtime routines, responding, decision making, answering open or closed ended questions, and the overall foundation of functional communication. With Smarty Mats as a guide through mealtimes, you will find endless ways to model and develop the basics of functional communication and speech development. Isolating these early skills and modeling them in a variety of contexts reinforces and strengthens understanding.
• 🍎Smarty Mats Approach: Our visual aids are bright, engaging, and thoughtfully hand illustrated to offer dynamic strategies and approaches that will meet a range of communication needs. Whether you are navigating toddler speech delays, Autism, non-verbal communication, or seeking homeschooling supplies for early childhood education, Smarty Mats communication boards are a powerful special education tool. Our visual aids have been thoughtfully illustrated to guide basic ASL and language use, while targeting attention, preverbal, expressive, receptive & social skills in a progressive format that is strengths based for effective speech therapy at home.
• 🍎 Smarty Mats Step 2: Step 2 expands communication skill development by including new words that can create 2-3-4 word combinations, model more back and forth responding, and brings self regulation into focus. Introducing expansion of skills by incorporating them into a format that is already familiar and understood, is a strengths based approach that reduces overwhelm and maximises your child’s opportunities for success. Each new visual aid has been thoughtfully incorporated to help you guide a variety of word combinations, and use core words in new ways to reinforce understanding and opportunities to practise recognizing a need for self regulation, and requesting it appropriately.