Families are busy and working on language can feel daunting. One easy way to help your child with his/her language deficit is to incorporate language into daily routines. There are many fun ways to make language therapy a part of your daily routines. Here are some examples:
While watching a movie you can ask your child questions about the movie. If you were watching Frozen II, questions you can ask are:
Who has ice powers?
Where are they going?
What is Olaf?
Why does Elsa want to go on a journey?
When does Kristoff propose to Anna?
How does Elsa get to Ahtohallan ?
Ask your child to retell you the story of what happens in the movie.
Questions can be adapted to any movie or book.
Have your child help you make breakfast/lunch/dinner. Talk about the order of events. What do you do first, next, last? This can happen during any routine. What do we do first before we go to bed?
Language rich activities are all around us. We use scripts when we play games such as "Go Fish!" and "Simon Says". Just by talking to your child and telling them what you are doing and asking them questions help with his/her language. Make language therapy fun!
For children with limited verbal abilities and learning core words, please click this link for activities to download to learn the word "put":
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FPMvzY7WIks3f1nUb2iiNcEtsSG3KdUn/view?usp=sharing
For more activities and information on making language a part of your routines, visit this website from Speech and Language Kids:
https://www.speechandlanguagekids.com/speech-language-daily-routines/