zoo zompers card game
zoo zompers
Zoo Zompers card game was developed by a speech language pathologist to improve a child's social skills, receptive language, and expressive language skills.
Zoo Zompers is an educational card game for children of all developmental levels. The game is designed to be used in classrooms, at home, speech therapy, special education, early childhood, homeschool, preschool and ESL students.
Zoo Zompers targets developmental skills that are imperative to a child’s expressive and receptive language, including:
Following Directions
Answering Questions
Vocabulary Building
Word Finding
Asking Questions
Sentence Building
Descriptives
Speech Sound Production
Visual Memory
Social Skills
Beginner Level
Examples: Do you have a lion?... Do you have a green lion? Do you have a green tail...Do you have a lion with a green tail? Do you have a blue ear...Do you have a lion with a blue ear?
Intermediate Level
Examples: Do you have an animal with red and green ears? Do you have a lion with green and red ears? Do you have an animal with red and blue legs...Do you have a lion with red and blue legs?
Advanced Level
Examples: Match the animal, body color, both ears, leg colors, and tail color. Do you have a blue lion with red and yellow ears, blue and green legs and a red tail?
The Winner is the Zookeeper of the day!
Game Variations for all Developmental levels so Everyone can have Fun!
Zoo Zompers can be played in many different ways!
1. Zoo Match
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How to Play: Zoo Match is played like the popular matching game. The player with the most zoo matches becomes The Zookeeper of the Day!
2. Go to the Zoo
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How to Play: Go to the Zoo is played like the popular Go Fish game. The player with the most matches is The Zookeeper of the Day!
3. Barrier Game
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How to play: Zoo Zompers cards are excellent to use in barrier games (think of the Battleship game) to improve comprehension, listening skills, auditory memory, and following directions that may include prepositions or spatial concepts.
Product Description
Four wacky zoo animals colored with four primary colors
48 cards : 3.25" x 4.0"
24 pair of zoo animals
2 Direction cards
High quality smudge-proof cards
Preschool - Elementary
Great for taking on-the-go
About
Kay Ely M.A. CCC-SLP
Her professional experience of 29 years include servicing public and private schools, pediatric therapy clinics. With her wealth of knowledge, Kay opened her private practice, Expressions in Motion LLC, where she did extensive therapy that included educating the parents about their child’s specific needs resulting in excellent carryover.
Throughout her years of experience, Kay developed new techniques for children on the autism spectrum. She saw a need to develop a card game that would address all language skills for any age and level of communication deficits. The game allows therapists, teachers and parents, a fun way for the child to gain new skills and become successful in the world of communication. Zoo Zompers has been tested by speech language pathologists with proven results.