Communication Development
Strategies to support your child's communication development within their everyday routines and play.
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Worth the wait
WORTH THE WAIT ⬇️Parents, ever feel like you need to fill every silence with words? 🤔 Here’s a game-changer: WAIT! ⏳Imagine you’re in a meeting, and your boss asks you...
Language Tip: Road Safety
Steal this strategy ⬇️There's no more important time for a child to 'STOP' than in a road safety sitatuation.We all WANT to give them the freedom to run or bike...
Tell a story to get a story
TELL a story to GET a story.🙂Takes the pressure off🙂 Models excellent sentence structure🙂 Helps jog their memory🙂 Teaches story telling and sequencing🙂 Increases likelihood that they'll share with youSend...
Language Development Tip
Why it matters ⬇️ For some reason, adults have fallen into a pattern of speaking in the third person to our kids. For example, people often say "come to mummy"...
Stop doing this one thing if you want your child to talk more
IT'S SO TEMPTINGto ask our kids to say stuff to us.Like "say hello", "say please", "say mooo", "say milk".ESPECIALLY when our kids aren't saying many words yet and we want...
8 Skills that Children need to practice before they develop first words
Teach this ⬇️Are you and your parent friends waiting to hear first words?! Share this with them.From birth, babies are working on these 8 Pre-verbal skills just from hanging out...
4 Tips to Enhance your Baby's Speech and Language Development
Your little one is learning how to communicate from the second they're brought into this world.Communication isn't just talking, it's noises and facial expressions and gestures and tones.When your baby...
Teach your child to talk using Plydough
Throwback ThursdayA little video of Auggie (age 2years and 7 months) and I playing with playdough and retelling the story of the very hungry caterpillar.Retelling stories with props is so...
Ten things to do with your kid that isn't play with toys
Tired of playing pretend?Save this list for later - it'll come in handy when you're totally over toys and ready for another activity.Playing with toys can be tiring for adults....
Pre-verbal Skills
First words start here⬇️Your baby is probably already intentially communicating with you - don't miss it!!Learning to talk starts with PRE-VERBAL SKILLS, they're the foundations of communication. So if you're...
Make your child 'use their words'
Read for more ⬇️We all want to hear our children speak and when they DO speak we want it to sound polite and respectful. Especially in public.I know a lot...
Do I need apps to support my child's language development
Put the screen down.Turn taking is the foundation of conversation.We know that children (and adults) learn language best from TURN TAKING interactions with a RESPONSIVE adult. Let me break down...
What to do if your baby isn't talking yet
No words?Time to start helping your little one to imitate exclamatory words! They count as first words too!So what are those?Exclamatory words are fun little words full of emotion that...
Help! My child keeps speaking in a baby voice
Why though? Kids tend to revert to using baby voices or acting like babies when they're: 1. Embarrassed 2. Seeking nurturing It's nothing to worry about. It's a behaviour, it's...
Help! My child isn't communicating with me
Help! My child isn’t communicating with me. Try this! Tempt them to communicate by giving them their cup or bottle empty. Pretty soon they’ll send you a message that something...
Quick reminder: Push your Child from the Front of the Swings
It's all about getting face to face. We know that when parents get face to face with their children and make eye contact, it significantly supports a child's emotional development....
Did you know? Communication Begins with Gestures
It’s pretty common knowledge among speech-language therapists that kids start using gestures before they start saying actual words.Some research has shown that when toddlers used gestures to represent something, they...
I love taking my Kids Shopping
I love seeing the joy they get from feeling independent and like they're helping out. Is it controversial to say that I love taking my kids shopping?! I always feel...
Tell a Story to get a Story
Less questions, more comments. Did you have a good day?Yep.What was the best bit?Lunch.Who did you play with?Dunno. If you’re struggling with one word answers from your child, then it’s...
What to do if your Child is only Saying Parts of Words
It's so easy to help a child to hear and use all the syllables in a word - simply tap it out with them.The trick here is to just model...
