Appropriate Population: 

• 4 years and up
• Mild delay or age-appropriate cognitive and language abilities

Goal: 

• Answering inference questions
• Building vocabulary 
• Perspective taking

Steps:

1. Select an image which is appropriate for discussing inference at your client’s skill level. 
2. Ask your client inference questions about the image
   • What is he/she feeling?
   • Why do they feel that way?
   • What are they going to do next? Why?
   • What could they have been doing before this?

Step up: 

• Select images with multiple people/activities happening. 

Step down:

• Provide more support and scaffolding. 
• Select an image with a single person.

Resources:

Inference Images from teacherspayteachers.com (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Inferencing-with-Images-Lesson-Power-Point-Slide-Show-on-Inferencing-5170645)