Speech activities for preschoolers

The best way to help a child's speech and language development is through play. Here are 10 simple activities that you can do at home, including the key vocabulary to focus on, to help develop your child's speech and oral language. The key to these activities is about engaging with the child and using simple, useful language that matches the actions of play. This puts the language into context with what they are experiencing and gives them opportunities to hear, use and practice the language…

Use these simple language games to boost your toddler's speech! These proven methods use phonemic awareness-based learning to improve early literacy.

You CAN do speech therapy at home! 30 Quick and Easy activities you can try today. #speachtherapyactivities #speachtherapy

Check out this blog post for tips and ideas for using a "what's in the bag?" activity to support early language skills in your EI sessions.

Over the past five and a half years I have learned a lot while working as a school-based speech-language pathologist. When I first started I created a set of homework tasks cards called Toddler Toys and felt that it was time for an update. Through the years I have realized that many of my school-age children benefit greatly from play-based speech therapy and that these cards are not just for toddlers. So, I have updated the file and compiled 15 of my favorite, most used play-based speech…

Simple language activities for toddlers and preschoolers can be powerful. As their first role model and "teacher," your belief in the value of language development through play is crucial. By encouraging language development activities, like reading, singing, talking, and block play, you create an environment for naturally occurring language activities. Let's play and build some valuable communication and language skills.

Confession time...I'm a terrible singer. Like, turrible. But I don't let that stop me (Follow your dreams, people) from belting out my own little diddies and dance moves in my therapy sessions. Why? Mostly because it draws attention and makes my students laugh. But also, I know that movements and chants and rhymes can all help my students engage and learn. Like the kind of learning that sticks. Let's take a look at some research:

I wanted to give you 10 speech therapy ideas to do at home because you, as the parent, are your child's best teacher. I am a play therapist (not an SLP), so I work with many speech-delayed children, in conjunction with their speech-language pathologist (birth-age 3) and these activities work great with them in the home,