Video can be a great supplement to aphasia therapy. I’m sharing five ESL (English as a Second Language) videos that we can use to teach verbs in aphasia therapy. These videos can be used during the therapy session, or assigned as part of a home exercise program.
Outline:
- Ideas for using ESL videos in aphasia therapy.
- 250+ common verbs.
- Easy English action verbs.
- 50 common verbs acted out.
- Action verbs in sentences.
- Action verbs guessing game.
- Try out a video and share how it went.
- Related Eat, Speak, & Think posts.
Ideas for using ESL videos in aphasia therapy
Video can be a great addition to speech therapy. I especially like videos which show the action. Seeing the action activates mirror neurons, which may improve access to semantic information. Some videos pause before saying the word and displaying the text, while others show them simultaneously.
Here are some ideas for using ESL videos for speech therapy or home exercise programs.
- Watch the video and repeat each vocabulary word.
- Pause the video before the word is said/displayed and try to say it first.
- Stop the video after each word and use the word in a sentence.
- Pause the video after each word and either copy the word or write a sentence.
- Only listen to the video and write each word as you hear it (writing to dictation).
- Mute the video and read each word aloud as it’s displayed.
Using video clips could be a great addition to VNeST therapy.
250+ common verbs
7ESL Learning English has a YouTube video titled “Learn 250+ Common Verbs in English in 25 minutes.” The video presents static pictures of activities for a few seconds before simultaneously presenting the printed and spoken labels. The images are good and include both adults and children, but the images are static.
Easy English action verbs
Easy English has a great video called “Action Verbs Vocabulary” where each verb is acted out.
50 common verbs acted out
Fluent Worlds has a fun video in which a man acts out 50 common verbs, using fun backgrounds. He says the word before acting it out, and the text is displayed the entire time.
Action verbs in sentences
English Learning Course has a fun video showing short stories, titled Action Verbs – fun and easy way to learn English. Each scenario starts with a list of printed verbs that are spoken aloud. As the scenario plays out, the sentences are displayed at the same time they are spoken and the verbs are highlighted.
Action verbs guessing game
Games4ESL has a great video called Action Verbs Game which reveals a picture bit-by-bit, then after the entire image is seen, displays the printed word. There are 10 verbs in this game.
Try out a video and share how it went
If you try out one of the videos, I”d love to hear how it went. How did you use it? What it helpful?
Related Eat, Speak, & Think posts
- How to shape words from numbers to improve speech.
- Improve aphasia outcomes by creating intensive home exercise programs.
- How intensive home exercise helped my patient talk again.
Lisa earned her M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Maryland, College Park and her M.A. in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego.
She participated in research studies with the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and the University of Maryland in the areas of aphasia, Parkinson’s Disease, epilepsy, and fluency disorders.
Lisa has been working as a medical speech-language pathologist since 2008. She has a strong passion for evidence-based assessment and therapy, having earned five ASHA Awards for Professional Participation in Continuing Education.
She launched EatSpeakThink.com in June 2018 to help other clinicians be more successful working in home health, as well as to provide strategies and resources to people living with problems eating, speaking, or thinking.
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