At Home Activities

Encouraging Speech Through Charades

Charades helps kids practise speaking skills while having fun with family, building confidence through play-based learning.

Including Siblings in Speech Practice

Getting siblings involved in speech practise helps keep families aligned while making exercises more effective and fun for everyone.

Moving Beyond Baby Talk

When children are ready to talk clearly, baby talk can actually slow their speech development, here's how to help them move toward grown-up communication.

Nursery Songs and Speech

Nursery songs help children practise speech sounds, rhythm and language skills while having fun with familiar rhymes and motions.

Questionnaire: Do You Encourage Speech at Home?

Check if your home environment encourages kids to speak and develop language skills with this simple questionnaire.

Reading a Picture Book

Picture books build your child's language skills when you ask questions, repeat words, and talk about what's happening on each page.

Speech and Shopping Lists

Turn shopping list writing into speech practise by involving your child in deciding what to buy, writing it down and reading it together.

Speech Practice and Household Chores

Household chores offer a practical way to practise speech while doing everyday tasks without needing scheduled time or another person.

Using Board Games to Encourage Speech

Board games can help kids in speech therapy practise sounds, vocabulary and language skills while having fun during home sessions.

Using the Internet in Speech Practice

Online speech therapy and free practise resources let you work on your speech whenever it suits you, from home or anywhere else.