Build language with imaginative play!
Increase oral motor movements and awareness with mirror play!
Increase oral motor movements and awareness with mirror play!
- Get out a box of dress up clothes and props.
- Talk about characters from books, shows, or movies that use these items (a pirate item could be from Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Peter Pan, etc).
- Use a mirror to make silly faces. Can your child imitate you? Can you imitate your child?
- Role play or have a conversation while pretending to be a character.
- Make language learning and speech practice fun!
Here are some great ideas for speech & language activities while riding in the car!
You can work on building your children's language right in your own home during all of the hustle and bustle of the holidays!
It's easy!
1. Buy a gingerbread house kit.
2. Gather your children together to put it together.
3. As you are all working on it together, try some of the following ideas.
~Give the children special jobs. Use simple 1 step or 2 step directions. See if they can understand.
~Ask wh-questions. "What color is this candy?" Where are you going to put the green candy?" "Who might live in our gingerbread house?"
~Work on turn taking.
~Have your child describe parts to you.
~Have your child ask for items. "Please pass me the frosting."
~When finished, take pictures. Your children can use the pictures and their great language skills to tell their grandparents about what they made and how they did it!
It's easy!
1. Buy a gingerbread house kit.
2. Gather your children together to put it together.
3. As you are all working on it together, try some of the following ideas.
~Give the children special jobs. Use simple 1 step or 2 step directions. See if they can understand.
~Ask wh-questions. "What color is this candy?" Where are you going to put the green candy?" "Who might live in our gingerbread house?"
~Work on turn taking.
~Have your child describe parts to you.
~Have your child ask for items. "Please pass me the frosting."
~When finished, take pictures. Your children can use the pictures and their great language skills to tell their grandparents about what they made and how they did it!
Here's a language idea:
Talk to your child about his or
her favorite animal.
-What is it?
-Where does it live?
-What does it eat?
-Look it up online and in books. How many different pictures of it can you find?
-Tell about your favorite animal too!
Talk to your child about his or
her favorite animal.
-What is it?
-Where does it live?
-What does it eat?
-Look it up online and in books. How many different pictures of it can you find?
-Tell about your favorite animal too!
