LDA Language Skills:

Chatterbox

Chatter Box is an exciting range of materials to support children’s speech and language development. Written by a speech and language therapist, the activities are based on our popular photographic and illustrated language cards. Each Chatter Box focuses on a specific aspect of language and offers a comprehensive collection of cards, games, activities and equipment to provide a structured approach to early language development. Packed with ideas, each Chatter Box contains 50 activity cards specifically created for teaching assistants, learning support teachers and class teachers. All contents are stored in a sturdy wooden box.

Basic Language

Conceptual Language

Expressive Language

Our latest Chatter box is designed to stimulate children’s expressive language – particularly the vocabulary needed to describe sequences of events, thoughts and feelings. The aims is to help children begin to use this vocabulary for narrative, descriptions, recognition of emotion and reasoning. As well as the 9 sets of photo and picture cards and 50 activity cards, we’ve included a variety of additional items to bring the best our of each session.

Sequential Thinking 1-5

Stimulate your children to tell stories, question and predict using these beautifully illustrated sequencing cards. As you progress through the sets the sequences become visually and logically more complex. As well as encouraging communication skills, the cards develop important pre-reading skills, such as left to right orientation. Each set contains 2 question mark cards which can be used to replace pictures and encourage imaginative thinking and prediction.

Set 1
Contains: 3 2-card sequences; 4 3-card sequences; 3 4-card sequences; 2 question mark cards.
Set 2
Contains: 2 4-card sequences; 2 5-card sequences; 2 6-card sequences; 2 question mark cards.
Set 3:
Contains: 6 3-card sequences; 3 4-card sequences; 2 question mark cards.
Set 4
Contains: 6 5-card sequences; 2 question mark cards.
Set 5
Contains: 5 6-card sequences; 2 7-card sequences; 2 8-card sequences; 2 question mark cards.

Photo Action Cards

Our language cards are especially designed to meet the receptive and expressive needs of young children and to engage their interest. We show children using the things children use and doing the things they do! Our range includes photo cards which clearly depict real-life objects and situations, and picture cards with charming illustrations that will encourage story-telling and expressive language. The cards are versatile enough to be used by teachers, therapists and teaching assistants for group or individual work. Hop, jump, throw, push, cycle or even climb! These lively photo cards clearly illustrate verbs commonly used by children. They are ideal to reinforce vocabulary and to develop expressive language. Contains 35 cards (125 x 110mm) and teacher’s notes.

What Would you Do?

Designed to raise questions of value and safety, each of these 8 situations has 5 different possible actions. The illustrated cards will give children plenty to think and talk about and increase awareness of the effect their actions may have on other people. Contains 8 situation cards (140 x 140mm) and 40 action cards (70 x 102mm) plus teacher’s notes.

Photo Adjective Cards

Our language cards are especially designed to meet the receptive and expressive needs of young children and to engage their interest. We show children using the things children use and doing the things they do! Our range includes photo cards which clearly depict real-life objects and situations, and picture cards with charming illustrations that will encourage story-telling and expressive language. The cards are versatile enough to be used by teachers, therapists and teaching assistants for group or individual work. Long, short, frightened, cold, high and small are just some of the adjectives packed into this set of cards. The photos can be used to encourage children to extend their vocabulary of descriptive words. Contains 35 cards (125 x 110mm) and teacher’s notes.

Nouns Super Sets 1 & 2

Set 1
This set of high quality photographs is ideal for naming and sorting activities to extend children’s early language and to develop understanding. Each object is shown as a single item on a plain uncluttered background. The cards are varnished for extra protection. Each set contains 105 cards (148 x 120mm) and teacher’s notes. Includes everyday objects, kitchen utensils and furniture.

Set 2
Each set contains 105 cards (148 x 120mm) and teacher’s notes. Includes children’s toys, children’s clothes and school accessories.

Action Lotto

This exciting lotto game helps develop key language skills in an enjoyable way. Designed especially for children with speech and language difficulties, the aim is to identify and match everyday actions. 4 photographic scene cards show actions in the kitchen, bedroom, lounge and garden. Within each scene children depict different target verbs. There are 3 different games to play: (A) In 1, children play a simple matching game, finding the objects associated with each verb in the scene cards (B) In game 2, children match an action from the scene card with a playing card showing exactly the same verb (C) In game 3, children match an action from the scene card (cutting a cake with a knife), with a playing card showing the same verb in a different context, such. Action Lotto is ideal to stimulate discussion and to practise more demanding syntactic and semantic activities. The cards and boards are extra thick to ensure they stand the test of time, and all activities can be made easier or harder to match the ability of the child you are working with. Contains 4 scene cards (297 x 210mm), 4 playing boards (210 x 210mm), 52 photo cards (90 x 90mm) and teacher’s/therapist’s notes, including activity suggestions.