When the correct placement is scanned, the learner presses the access device and the puzzle piece will move into place. Language is symbolic. It also makes order order out of many different combinations of sounds. Puzzles make order out of a variety of symbolic pieces. In addition, these puzzles have the same images as in the Teach Me to Talk activity with the same spoken words.
Puzzles provide another way to approach the same theme.
Sometimes children need to learn to put puzzles together. Students have have been forced to learn with puzzles that are too difficult to allow success. This activity allows each student to begin puzzle play with greater ease. Many times we do not actually know how much symbolic language the student comprehends and is ready to utilize. The image and the word may not be comprehended but it may be preferable to a cartoon-like or line drawing which has less meaning.