PRESCHOOL RESOURCES

QUICK TIP SHEETS to increase communication skills:

Predictable Books to Target Language and Literacy

Click the link above for tips on reading predictable stories with preschoolers.

Talking to Your Child

Click the link above for tips on conversing with your child to build their language skills.

Learning Two Languages

Click the link above for information on preschoolers with English as their second language.

Build Language Skills While You Wait!

Click the link above for tips on building language while you wait...make the most of your time with your preschooler!

The Learning Power of Play

Cilck the link above to learn how play enhances language skills in preschoolers.

Build Understanding By Explaining Discipline At Home

Click the link above for tips on helping preschoolers understand discipline while increasing their receptive language with words, explanations, and reasoning.

Tech Time with Preschoolers - Limit it for Success

Click the link above for information on how and why you should limit tech time for preschoolers.

Impulse Control - teaching your preschooler self control

Click the link above for suggestions regarding the development of self control in the preschool aged child.

Questions, Questions, Questions: Why it is important to answer them and how you can do so to enhance communication skills

Click the link above for information on why and how should answer your preschooler's many questions!

Cooking!! We do it so often and it can be an amazing time to work on communication skills. We can help our children learn new labels, practice new skills and have fun in the process!abaspeech.org/2020/05/speech-therapy-ideas-for-students-with-autism-communication-at-home-cooking/

VIDEOS to increase communication skills:

Connecting concepts

Click the link above for a video demonstrating how parents can use reading time to make communication connections with kids.

Making Pizza: Building Vocabulary and Language

Click the link above for a video depicting kitchen time as learning time!

Reading as Partners: Bilingual

Click the link above for a video of a bilingual father reading with his child. There are great shared reading strategies listed in English.

Introductory Reading to young children

Click the link above for a video demonstrating how to introduce books to very young or cognitively delayed children, beginning with basic board books or picture books.