Communication Development
Strategies to support your child's communication development within their everyday routines and play.
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The Best Top for Helping Your Child to say Words Correctly
If their words sound strange, you need to sound STRANGER when you model it back to them correctly. Say it more than once and with lots of emphasis. DO NOT...
Speak Normally to Support Language Development
It's totally fine to speak in the first person and speak normally. Our kids get it!!It's best we model how we want them to speak in the future - after...
Teach your Child to Talk using Bubbles
Bubbles machines are FUN and there's definitely a place for them - but when you blow your own bubbles with your child, you're much likely to be a fantastic language...
How to Teach your Toddler to Count
Some children learn to to count when they’re 1, some take a little longer and count when they’re closer to 5. As with all milestones, there’s huge variation, but what...
The Power of Parent Facing
My only prerequisite for my pushchair was that my kids could face me. Here's why: Babies are hard wired to seek out and look at faces, especially their parents! In...
Language Development Hack: How to Teach Colours
Children learn colours quicker and easier. Colour AFTER object. So instead of saying: The Red CarThe Brown DogThe Pink Cardigan Say:The Car is Red The Cardigan is Pink The Dog...
1.4 Million More Words
You already know how important it is to read to your children, but this little statistic just hammers the point home, doesn’t it?! For those who aren’t read to, they’re...
Parents Play and Important Role
YOU are the best teacher for your child. Never forget it.Children learn quicker when taught by those who they feel closest to and safest around - and that's most likely...
Functional First Words to Teach Your Baby
When Speech Therapists describe words as functional, they mean "useful words to get your point across and your needs met". We want all children to have a form of functional...
Tempt them to Communicate
Another example of a communication temptation! Communication temptations are things you can do to sabotage a situation or a predictable routine. They're so put of the ordinary that they tempt...
2 Ways to Help Your Child Say More Words
Two strategies for supporting your little one to say more words. If you’re trying to teach your little one to use more words – this is he video for you!...
Support you Child's Communication Develop with this Easy Trick
This is such a great trick to have up your sleeve. Reading and cuddling is obviously fantastic for many reasons, but have you tried face to face? This position is...
How I use Speech and Language Therapy Strategies in Everyday Interactions
Just examples of how I weave strategies into simple interactions as we play. I know many of you loved this content when it was in my stories so I’ll try...
How Action Songs Support Language Development
We love action songs! Action songs are great for development and can help your child to understand the meaning of the lyrics. The gestures show your little one that movement...
The One-Hand Rule for Language Development
Every time you make a comment, you’re teaching your child something. Think of it as making a deposit into their language bank. Every time you ask a question, you’re testing...
How to Practice Speech Sounds during Play
Speech sound practise should be fun! Make sure it’s a sound they can actually say but they just need practice to use more often. Briefly pause any game to build...
Say and Sign Before You Do: Water
Being able to ask for a drink is so important - imagine being thirsty and unable to help yourself?! We're all fab parents so we tend to anticipate our little...
Letter to Sound Rules
I’m so proud of August tonight that I could EXPLODE.I’ve been teaching August his letter to sound rules since he was 1 year old (he turns 3 in June)- not...
When to Sign 'Finished' to your Baby
Imagine knowing what you want but being unable to tell anyone? It would be so frustrating. That’s what it feels like for our little ones before they can communicate with...
Teach Manners through Modelling, not Parroting
When you prompt your little one to “say please” or “say sorry”, they’re learning that they have to copy what you say to get what they want, but it’s unlikely...
