Communication Development
Strategies to support your child's communication development within their everyday routines and play.
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The Best Top for Helping Your Child to say Words Correctly
If their words sound strange, you need to sound STRANGER when you model it back to them correctly. Say it more than once and with lots of emphasis. DO NOT...
The Power of Modelling
Modelling is when you show your child the exact thing you would like them to say or do, and it’s a word Speech and Language Therapists say all the time....
4 Things You can do to Teach Your Child to Talk
Kids learn all their language from listening to us. They're not born with words waiting to come out.So, it makes sense that there's things we can do differently to make...
Simple Strategy for Speech Sound Development
Make your face fun!! This simple strategy can make all the difference when it comes to teaching new words, ESPECIALLY for kids who’s sounds are coming out a little muddled....
What to do if your Child is only Saying Parts of Words
It's so easy to help a child to hear and use all the syllables in a word - simply tap it out with them.The trick here is to just model...
Teach your Child to Talk using Bubbles
Bubbles machines are FUN and there's definitely a place for them - but when you blow your own bubbles with your child, you're much likely to be a fantastic language...
How to Teach your Toddler to Count
Some children learn to to count when they’re 1, some take a little longer and count when they’re closer to 5. As with all milestones, there’s huge variation, but what...
Fill them up with Language: Swimming Edition
Just LOOK how much vocab you can teach when you take your little one swimming. And this is MINIMUM - there'll be so many more things specific to your local...
The Power of Parent Facing
My only prerequisite for my pushchair was that my kids could face me. Here's why: Babies are hard wired to seek out and look at faces, especially their parents! In...
Language Development Hack: How to Teach Colours
Children learn colours quicker and easier. Colour AFTER object. So instead of saying: The Red CarThe Brown DogThe Pink Cardigan Say:The Car is Red The Cardigan is Pink The Dog...
1.4 Million More Words
You already know how important it is to read to your children, but this little statistic just hammers the point home, doesn’t it?! For those who aren’t read to, they’re...
Parents Play and Important Role
YOU are the best teacher for your child. Never forget it.Children learn quicker when taught by those who they feel closest to and safest around - and that's most likely...
Teach your Toddler to Join Words Together
Save this is you're trying to teach your child to combine words! Typically, most children can combine two or more words before the age of 2. Some children take a...
How Speech Sounds Develop
Some sounds are harder to say than others, so we don't tend to hear children say them until they're older. Knowing WHEN sounds typically develop will ensure that you're not...
Be a Teacher, not at Tester
When our babies start communicating with us using words, signs or actions, we tend to get excited and want them to do it again and again. We can easily fall...
Functional First Words to Teach Your Baby
When Speech Therapists describe words as functional, they mean "useful words to get your point across and your needs met". We want all children to have a form of functional...
Can Turning off the Background Noise Support your Child's Language Development
I'm not the music police! I've done plenty a post about the benefits of music and nursery rhymes and signing and dancing with your kids! This post is about raising...
Did you know that Animal Sounds Count as First Words?!
Yep. They meet the criteria for first words. If your little one uses the same sound consistently and in the correct context (eg barks when they see a dog )...
Tempt them to Communicate
Another example of a communication temptation! Communication temptations are things you can do to sabotage a situation or a predictable routine. They're so put of the ordinary that they tempt...
How to Tell if Your Child is Meeting Their Expressive Language Milestones
Write it down, guys!I've been putting it off but today I took the time to start the list of words I know that Etta is saying consistently. This will mean...
