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How to Teach Personal Information to Children

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Knowing personal information is a critical life skill to incorporate into speech therapy and the special education classroom! All children must know their basic information in case of an emergency or separation from a caregiver. Our students with autism may have a more difficult time memorizing and giving this information. Try incorporating different learning and generalization strategies to help them!

What personal information should every child know?

  • Name – full name!
  • Caregiver name(s)
  • Phone number(s)
  • Address

What other personal information is good to know?

  • Age
  • Birthday
  • School name
  • Teacher’s name
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All About Me Personal Information
All About Me Personal Information

I’ve picked up some tricks and ways I teach this information to students. Generalization is key since they might need to give this information under different circumstances to different people. Ask the questions in different forms, different locations, and using different people. Review these questions constantly to ensure the child knows the answers.

ASK DIFFERENT WAYS

Ask the questions in other ways! Not everyone is going to phrase a question the same way. Be sure to switch things up, so the child has not memorized an answer to a question phrased in a specific way. For example, “What is your address?” or “Where do you live?” or “What city do you live in?”

USE DIFFERENT METHODS

Students should respond in as many formats as they are capable: speaking, writing, and typing. Create different activities for your students to respond to the questions. Have your students practice writing their answers down or filling out forms on paper and online.

Tip: Create a google form for your students to type their answers!

HAVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE ASK THE QUESTIONS

This will help the child generalize the information and practice telling unfamiliar adults.

REVIEW THE INFORMATION CONSISTENTLY

This is a skill that should be continuously reviewed! As the child gets older, add more information for them to memorize, perhaps additional phone numbers or a grandparent’s address.

Personal Information for Older Students

Older students and teens should understand what an identification card is, the information on it, and where to find theirs. Older students should have a school ID or other form of identification. Practice filling out information common on forms – such as gender, middle name, personal phone number, and the state and country they live.

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Do you have tips for teaching personal information to children?


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As educators we understand this but it’s also our responsibly to relay and explain this to caregivers!
“Children gesture before they begin to speak and “Children gesture before they begin to speak and continue gesturing throughout the language learning process...children’s early gestures not only precede, but also predict, the onset of a number of linguistic milestones–nouns, nominal constituents, simple and complex sentences. Gesturing may thus play a causal role in language learning, and could do so in two ways: (1) Gesturing gives children the opportunity to practice expressing ideas in a preverbal form. (2) A child’s gestures offer parents and other communication partners insight into the child’s linguistic level, thus giving the partners the opportunity to provide input tailored to that level.”

Goldin-Meadow, S. How gesture helps children learn language. (2014)

Some caregivers worry that we are giving up on verbal language when we begin using gestures or other non-verbal forms of communication.But gestures can be an amazing stepping stone to words. They seem to help the concept of communication click for a child...If I do this, then I get what I want/need! Have you found this to be the true?
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Note: These numbers are based on unfamiliar listeners in an unknown context. You will notice the dark blue is the milestone (when 95% of children at this intelligible) and the light blue is the average (when 50% of children are this intelligible.)

The snapshot on the left is a summary given by the researchers (Hustad, et al.) as a quick way to remember and recite this new information.

Find these updated intelligibility levels in the Free SLP Handouts!

The paid handouts were updated a while back with this new information and have a more detailed summary, including word-level intelligibility. If you own them, be sure to redownload!

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It’s ESSENTIAL to work on these skills starting in Preschool and continuing to focus on them in Kindergarten and First Grade!

The Speech-Language Development Handouts break down what to target at each grade level + the phonological awareness steps with definitions and examples!

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