Home Activities

There are many ways to encourage speech and language skills at home. Some simple activities to incorporate into your daily routine include:

• Ask your child to help set the table or put things away, and give directions that include prepositions like above/below, next to, between when asking them to do the tasks. For example:

  • • Put the remote next to the book

    • Set the forks next to the plates

    • Put your shoes next to the door and put your backpack in front of the bench

• During your evening routine, use before/after or prepositions in your directions. For example:

  • • brush your teeth before you put on your pajamas

    • fill the dog's water bowl after you pack your backpack

• Bake together and work on sequencing (the order of recipe directions) or before/after

• Watch TV together (an educational video on a topic of interest would be great) or read a book together and discuss unfamiliar vocabulary that you come across (e.g. Oh, the show said leopards are predators. Do you know what predator means?)

• Use the calendar and time concepts to discuss scheduling. For example, when looking at your family calendar, you might say: Today is Wednesday October 5. On Saturday we're going to visit grandma. How many days until we see her?

• Remember to take a look at Language Activities and Speech Activities in the pulldown menu!