10 Activities to Develop your Child’s Speech Skills Karen Wade, M.S., CCC/SLP
Here at KidsCare Therapy we work with children every day who have a wide range of disorders and developmental delays to help them continue to be able to communicate effectively. While we have found that most parents know the importance of their child’s speech and cognitive understanding skills, most of them don’t know that there are simple and fun things they can do with their child to help ensure they continue to develop. So here are ten activities that your kids won’t even know are good for them!
1. I Spy Shopping - When grocery shopping, or shopping in any store, play a guessing game in the form of “I Spy.” For example, while in the produce section, “I spy something round and red that grows on a tree.” Also, ask your child to label things as you place them in the basket.
2. Nature Scavenger Hunt – Take a nature hike with a list of items such as leaves, acorns, flowers, rocks, etc that your child must read and identify. If your child is too young to read a list then use pictures for them to match during the walk.
3. Photography - Take photos of daily activities with a digital camera, and then print them and put them in a photo album. Later, you can look through the photo album and talk about the things you did and what you saw.
4. Cooking - Use simple recipes such as gelatin or homemade popsicles to talk about the sequencing of events. Use words like, “first,” “next,” “then,” and “last,” to reinforce the fact that things happen in a specific order.
5. Catch - Play catch with an ordinary beach ball and tell your child that he/she has to label the color where their thumb lands. You can even write something on each color with a marker to expand the activity. For example, write a body part on each color, and when your child’s thumb lands on one, ask them to point to it on their body. Writing categories on each color will also work for this activity (things you eat, things you wear, toys, etc.) - when your child’s thumb lands on a category have them name three things that fit into that category. You could even write a simple noun or verb on each color and have your child make a sentence with the word written on the space in which their thumb lands.
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