Communication Development
Strategies to support your child's communication development within their everyday routines and play.
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The Million Word Gap
READ ⬇️Research has shown that kids who are read to daily hear around 1.4 million more words by age 5 than those who aren’t. That’s a HUGE difference! 🤯Here’s how...
Worth the wait
WORTH THE WAIT ⬇️Parents, ever feel like you need to fill every silence with words? 🤔 Here’s a game-changer: WAIT! ⏳Imagine you’re in a meeting, and your boss asks you...
Singing to your baby
Why Singing to Your Baby is a Game Changer!1. Enhances Their Sense of Security and Emotional Connection: Singing to your baby creates a comforting and familiar environment, boosting their sense...
Whats in your head?
What’s in your head?! Theory of mind is when kids realise that others have thoughts and feelings that differ from their own. It pays to remember this when it comes...
Language Tip: Road Safety
Steal this strategy ⬇️There's no more important time for a child to 'STOP' than in a road safety sitatuation.We all WANT to give them the freedom to run or bike...
Tell a story to get a story
TELL a story to GET a story.🙂Takes the pressure off🙂 Models excellent sentence structure🙂 Helps jog their memory🙂 Teaches story telling and sequencing🙂 Increases likelihood that they'll share with youSend...
Language Development Tip
Why it matters ⬇️ For some reason, adults have fallen into a pattern of speaking in the third person to our kids. For example, people often say "come to mummy"...
Starting School Mistake
Do this ⬇️⬇️Did you know that teaching your child what SOUND each letter makes is way more important than them learning the name of the letter?E.g. knowing that a K...
Reading time and Language Development
This is magic ⬇️YES it's lovely to have kids snuggled beside us or on our knee during reading time, but there's a BETTER WAY when it comes to supporting our...
Stop doing this one thing if you want your child to talk more
IT'S SO TEMPTINGto ask our kids to say stuff to us.Like "say hello", "say please", "say mooo", "say milk".ESPECIALLY when our kids aren't saying many words yet and we want...
What NOT to do if your child starts stuttering
Do this instead ⬇️ It's not uncommon for some kids to go through periods of dysfluency (less fluent speech) as they develop. Stuttering (also known as stammering) can sound like...
8 Skills that Children need to practice before they develop first words
Teach this ⬇️Are you and your parent friends waiting to hear first words?! Share this with them.From birth, babies are working on these 8 Pre-verbal skills just from hanging out...
4 Tips to Enhance your Baby's Speech and Language Development
Your little one is learning how to communicate from the second they're brought into this world.Communication isn't just talking, it's noises and facial expressions and gestures and tones.When your baby...
Teach yourself before you teach your child
⚠️don't make this mistake⚠️Saying the SOUND that letters make can be so powerful for early literacy. We speak, spell and read in letter SOUNDS, not letter names.But if you weren't...
Teach your child to talk using Plydough
Throwback ThursdayA little video of Auggie (age 2years and 7 months) and I playing with playdough and retelling the story of the very hungry caterpillar.Retelling stories with props is so...
My child doesn't say some speech sounds - should I worry?
⚠️SAVE THIS FOR REFERENCESome sounds are harder to say than others. Knowing WHEN sounds typically develop will ensure that you’re not expecting too much of your little one.Children are developing...
Top Language Tip from a Speech Therapist
This makes a difference ⬇️⬇️Sometimes adults so badly want to hear their kids speak or hear them use good manners that they make kids copy them, or set the expectation...
Teach your child to say 2-word phrases
LANGUAGE MILESTONES ⬇️By age 2, typically children are using between 50 and 300 words. This is around the time we expect that they'll start COMBINING words to make short phrases,...
Pre-verbal Skills
First words start here⬇️Your baby is probably already intentially communicating with you - don't miss it!!Learning to talk starts with PRE-VERBAL SKILLS, they're the foundations of communication. So if you're...
Make your child 'use their words'
Read for more ⬇️We all want to hear our children speak and when they DO speak we want it to sound polite and respectful. Especially in public.I know a lot...
