SPEECH THERAPY

SPEECH THERAPY AT HOME

ideas / activities for enhancing your child's speech and language skills at home

Articulation

• Read with your child focusing on their target sounds

• Find items at home, outside, etc. that have their target sound

• Play board games/card games (have child name the picture, practice requesting items with good speech sounds, etc)

• Make a list of words containing target sounds

• Engage your child in conversation about their favorite movie, book, hobbies, etc.

Language

• Read with your child

  • Focus on vocabulary your child may not know

  • Retell the story

  • Have your child describe items in the story

  • Have your child recall 3-4 facts from the story

  • Ask them "wh" questions about the story

• Play games

  • Following directions

  • Vocabulary

  • Turn taking

• Engage your child in conversation

  • Ask them questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why)

  • Practice turn taking in the conversation

  • Maintaining a topic

• Pretend play (request items, name items, etc.)

• Go on walks and describe things you see

For our older students:

• Ask “How” questions (How do you brush your teeth?)

• Talk about how objects are alike/different. (airplane-bird, sun- banana)

• Synonyms/Antonyms

• Engage in reading books

  • Have your student predict what will happen next

  • Have them describe the setting, characters, etc.

  • Answer questions related to story

• Play games

  • Practice turn taking, conversational skills, requesting items, etc.

Fluency

(Stuttering)

• Encourage your child to practice using their speech strategies

• Read a book and have your child retell the story with fluent speech

• Have your child recall events from the day with fluent speech