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Pictured is an EET semantic map. A yellow rain coat is placed in the middle of the semantic map to help students have a visual model of the object the therapist wants the student to describe. Each section of the semantic map has its own visual, paired with a key word\/phrase. Here are some ways to target describing \u2018raincoat\u2019 with your student\/child: What is the Expanding Expression Tool (EET)? EET is a tool that speech-language pathologists use to help: general description skills, oral expression, written expression, vocabulary comprehension, defining and describing, making associations, stating functions of objects, categorization and similarities and differences. Pictured is an EET semantic map. A yellow rain coat is placed in the middle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46,13],"tags":[63,59,75,274,273,60,61,275],"class_list":["post-8938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-news","category-speech","category-speech-language","tag-activities-for-kids","tag-children","tag-columbusspeechhearing","tag-eet","tag-expandingexpressiontool","tag-kids","tag-speech","tag-speechtherapyshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8938"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ud83d\udfe2: \u2018Green means group\u2019
What group does the raincoat belong to? Animals? Clothing? Or transportation?
\ud83d\udd35: \u2018Blue means do\u2019
What does the raincoat do?
Does it keep our feet dry? Does it keep our body dry?
\ud83d\udc40: \u2018What does it look like?\u2019
The raincoat is yellow and shiny.
\ud83d\udfe4: \u2018What is it made of?\u2019
Is the raincoat made of plastic? Wood? Rubber material?
\ud83d\udc97: \u2018Pink means parts\u2019
What parts does the raincoat have? Does it have legs? Buttons? Sleeves? Zippers?
\u26aa\ufe0f: \u2018White means where\u2019
Where can you find a raincoat? The zoo? A coat closet? The grocery store?
\u2753: \u2018What else do you know?\u2019
Raincoats are worn when it\u2019s wet and raining outside to keep our bodies clean, warm and dry. Raincoats can come in all different colors and patterns.
The EET tool <\/a>has been shown to help students consistently describe and define objects in an organized manner. It has also been shown to improve expression and comprehension skills and can be used with students from preschool-high school.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"