Children with dyspraxia often have difficulty with longer amount of speech, such as telling stories.
Before children can tell stories, they need to be able to get their thoughts in order. This is called sequencing. Children with dyspraxia often need help to plan what they are going to say and get it in order.
There are lots of fun activities that you can do in your daily life. Lots of things we do have to be done in a particular order. So we can use this order as prompts to help children tell about a sequence of actions.
Here are some practical ideas to get you started.
• Do activities that have a number of steps – eg cooking, craft activities, doing the washing
o Point out the steps as your go
o Every new step reiterate all the steps up to this point
o At the end go over all the steps, and ask your child to say what you did
o You can have your child draw the steps as you go as a visual prompt to retelling the steps later, or
o Afterwards they can draw little pictures to illustrate each step
• Get your child to tell you how to do a particular task and you follow their instructions – eg cleaning your teeth, washing the car, wrapping a present
o Highlight any errors by doing EXACTLY what your child says
o Then show how you would do it and have your child follow your instructions
o Repeat the same activity with your child giving the directions
• Use digital photos of an enjoyable activity – eg cooking, a day out
o You can take photos especially for this process to aid retell, or
o Use existing photos of events as prompts to tell the story of what happened
o Start with just 3-4 photos then work up to longer sequences
• Use story telling games where you can put the pictures in order then tell the story. There are some colourful, inexpensive commercial story-telling games available.
Source:
http://www.dyspraxia.info/help-your-child-tell-stories-oral-narrative/