Welcome Back!

Post date: Sep 09, 2015 6:54:25 PM

Welcome back, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful summer and a smooth transition back to school! The McGovern kids are all working very hard on further development of expressive and receptive language abilities, articulation skills, and conceptual knowledge here at school. Attached are a few links to fun activities you can do at home to help generalize their great skills to environments outside of McGovern. Have fun!

To elicit longer responses when asking your child to share details about their day at school: http://www.simplesimonandco.com/2014/08/25-ways-ask-kids-school-today-without-asking-school-today.html/

To aid in expressive and receptive language development in naturalistic settings:

See attached PDF file for 11 wonderful tips on how to aid in language development across activities and settings

Visit the following link for quick tips on increasing language abilities in food based activities:

http://creativespeechlab.com/2015/04/03/family-friday-speech-language-quick-tip-food/

To aid in reading comprehension and story telling abilities: http://firstgradewow.blogspot.com/2013/06/reading-schoolhome-connection.html

I hope you find these resources helpful!

Melissa Warner, MS CCC-SLP