At Home Activities...
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Encouraging Speech Through Charades
Children love to play, and very often they won’t even realise that they are learning while they are having so much fun. Charades is a quick and easy game that the...
Including Siblings in Speech Practice
Children who have siblings automatically have friends, rivals, competitors and even, on occasion, enemies. Children who also have speech...
Moving Beyond Baby Talk
Most adults lapse in to some form of “baby talk” when interacting with infants and small children. Generally this takes the form of using nonsense words, putting on...
Nursery Songs and Speech
Nursery songs are an easy, fun way for children to practice their speech. Very often these rhymes are taught during speech therapy sessions, usually along with...
Questionnaire: Do You Encourage Speech at Home?
When a child has a speech disruption it can be very tempting for their families to try to make things easy for them by not encouraging to speak...
Reading a Picture Book
Reading a picture book may seem like a strange idea, given that picture books tend to have very few, if any, words. Yet sitting down with your child and opening a...
Speech and Shopping Lists
Shopping lists may seem like one of life’s boring necessities, but when you are encouraging your child to expand his or her speech, language and literacy skills they...
Speech Practice and Household Chores
It would be easy to think that speech practice only takes place during defined times and assigned activities, but speech should ideally be practiced at all times, in...
Using Board Games to Encourage Speech
Board games are a classic type of family entertainment, and the fun they bring can be an important part of helping those in speech therapy enjoy...
Using the Internet in Speech Practice
The Internet has become a powerful tool in speech and language therapy and individuals can take advantage of this vast array of information for...
