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Posted by Alice Our clinic had a toy shopping cart and several plastic groceries. I would load a big bag up with the groceries before he got there -- trying to vary the combination a little bit each time, and sometimes bringing a few things from home like a real orange or an ice cream scoop. To play, we would take turns. Sometimes he was the grocer: he would have to line the groceries up (using carrier phrases like "bread goes here," "milk goes here") and then I would come in with my cart and ask hime for things (but I would ask them all wrong...pointing to the milk and saying "I need some of that peanut butter" -- prompting him to say things like "NO not peanut butter, milk!"). This game has endless possibilities for using phrases and words. We even added a "driving the car ("oh no, wrong turn," "stop at stop sign"), parking in the parking lot ("turn off the car" "lock the door," "put away keys,") and carrying the groceries into the house segment to our game.
on 2/26/2004, 9:18 am
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I worked with a four year old with dyspraxia as a grad student, and one of the most productive and fun activities we did was a grocery shopping game.
When I was the grocer, he would come in and do basically the same things - ssy "I need ___," Sometimes I would do them right, and other times I would get his groceries all wrong so he had to correct me.
It became his absolute favorite activity, and he never even knew how hard he was working.
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