Speech and Language Practice at Home
In order to generalize speech and language skills that are learned in our small group, structured setting, it is essential that your child practice these new skills at home. To promote carryover, it’s important for your child to practice in different environments and with different people, such as parents, siblings, teachers, and friends. If you can make it part of your everyday routine to practice these skills for just ten minutes per day, it will reinforce what is being worked on in school and you will be an integral part of your child’s progress!
One of the most important things you can do for your child at any age is talk with them often! Children learn from the models surrounding them. If your child is having difficulty with certain speech sounds or grammar be sure to model the correct sound or syntax for them. You can make learning target speech sounds fun by making it into a game. Have them look around the house for objects that begin with their sound. If you are on the road, have them look for objects, signs, places, etc. that begin with their sound. For children having a difficult time with phonemic awareness skills, you can expand on this activity to include beginning, middle, and ending sounds, as well as formulating rhyming words. If your child has difficulty recalling information, read short stories to them and ask them questions. Have your child make predictions and tell you what they think might happen next in the story. Have your child retell the story to you and talk about activities that they have done throughout the day. Following directions is another skill that is needed in school and in life. Build it into their everyday routine by asking them to follow one and two step directions such as “first put on your pajamas and then brush your teeth.” You can build on these and add additional steps and concepts as your child gets older and are learning to follow multiple step directions. Children also learn from peer models. Organize play dates to encourage social skills.
Visit the ASHA website.
April is Autism Awareness Month:
Autism Speaks
May is Better Speech and Hearing Month:
ASHA
Materials:
Super Duper
Websites:
Speaking of Speech
Starfall
PBS Kids
Enchanted Learning
Sandbox Learning
The Stuttering Foundation
Speech Techie
Apps:
Moms with Apps-Free App Friday
Sean Sweeney CCC-SLP: List of Speech and language Apps
Articles:
Here is an article to help with transitioning back to school after school vacations.
In order to generalize speech and language skills that are learned in our small group, structured setting, it is essential that your child practice these new skills at home. To promote carryover, it’s important for your child to practice in different environments and with different people, such as parents, siblings, teachers, and friends. If you can make it part of your everyday routine to practice these skills for just ten minutes per day, it will reinforce what is being worked on in school and you will be an integral part of your child’s progress!
One of the most important things you can do for your child at any age is talk with them often! Children learn from the models surrounding them. If your child is having difficulty with certain speech sounds or grammar be sure to model the correct sound or syntax for them. You can make learning target speech sounds fun by making it into a game. Have them look around the house for objects that begin with their sound. If you are on the road, have them look for objects, signs, places, etc. that begin with their sound. For children having a difficult time with phonemic awareness skills, you can expand on this activity to include beginning, middle, and ending sounds, as well as formulating rhyming words. If your child has difficulty recalling information, read short stories to them and ask them questions. Have your child make predictions and tell you what they think might happen next in the story. Have your child retell the story to you and talk about activities that they have done throughout the day. Following directions is another skill that is needed in school and in life. Build it into their everyday routine by asking them to follow one and two step directions such as “first put on your pajamas and then brush your teeth.” You can build on these and add additional steps and concepts as your child gets older and are learning to follow multiple step directions. Children also learn from peer models. Organize play dates to encourage social skills.
Visit the ASHA website.
April is Autism Awareness Month:
Autism Speaks
May is Better Speech and Hearing Month:
ASHA
Materials:
Super Duper
Websites:
Speaking of Speech
Starfall
PBS Kids
Enchanted Learning
Sandbox Learning
The Stuttering Foundation
Speech Techie
Apps:
Moms with Apps-Free App Friday
Sean Sweeney CCC-SLP: List of Speech and language Apps
Articles:
Here is an article to help with transitioning back to school after school vacations.