Communication Development
Strategies to support your child's communication development within their everyday routines and play.
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The Million Word Gap
READ ⬇️Research has shown that kids who are read to daily hear around 1.4 million more words by age 5 than those who aren’t. That’s a HUGE difference! 🤯Here’s how...
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"...
Starting School Mistake
Do this ⬇️⬇️Did you know that teaching your child what SOUND each letter makes is way more important than them learning the name of the letter?E.g. knowing that a K...
Reading time and Language Development
This is magic ⬇️YES it's lovely to have kids snuggled beside us or on our knee during reading time, but there's a BETTER WAY when it comes to supporting our...
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 yourself before you teach your child
⚠️don't make this mistake⚠️Saying the SOUND that letters make can be so powerful for early literacy. We speak, spell and read in letter SOUNDS, not letter names.But if you weren't...
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....
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...
Stuttering
Stuttering? Don't panic.I get so many parents reaching out to me about their child suddenly becoming dysfluent/ stuttering - it can come as quite a shock and no parent likes...
Worried your little one isn't talking much yet?
Here's how you can help.It starts with shifting your perspective: verbal words aren't the only goal. There are many steps that come before words and your little one might be...
Best way to read to your baby
More strategies ⬇️🌟Here's a throwback to when my 4 year old was 10 months old.GET FACE TO FACEPositioning yourself so you can get face to face is a total game...
Try this trick when reading with your child..
THIS MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE.Kids need to PRACTICE their vocabulary in order to learn how to to use it independently and there’s no better way than with a book.Kids love...
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...
5 Reasons Speech Therapists work with the parents more than the children
Why it’s so important that caregivers are empowered to be part of speech and language therapy. 1. They trust you more than anyone. We’re all more likely to listen to...
Functional language always wins.
Whether you're teaching words verbally, through sign or using a communication device, children need functional language FIRST before any academic concepts like the alphabet or colours.It makes sense right -...
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...
Language Development Tip: Choices Help Language to Develop
Not only will offering your child choices show them respect and reduce tantrums because they feel like they're in control, it can also help language development.Think about it, "do you...
Six Common Mistakes when Teaching a Child their First Words
Are you teaching or testing??!It's SO EASY to fall into the 'testing' role when teaching kids to talk because we so badly want to hear their first words. And when...
