How to Help Your Child Talk
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Welcome! If you are here, chances are you are looking for some ways to help your child speak and communicate! Great news…you’ve stumbled across the right page! Below you will find links to many posts here on this blog that are intended to help you help your littles expand their speech, language and communication skills! And don’t worry…I have many more posts in the works coming up soon as well! If there is something you are looking for that is not here, please be sure to shoot me an email: katie@playingwithwords365.com. Chances are the topic is on my “to-do list” but I am ALWAYS looking for more ideas and input from my readers!
Strategies to Help Your Child Talk
5 Tips to Help Your Child’s Speech and Language Development
Questions: Why Less in More {Part One}
Questions: Why Less is More {Part Two}
Setting up the Environment for Communication
Parallel , Self Talk, and Descriptions
Expansions, Extensions, and Repetitions
Commenting and Asking Questions
Modeling and Requiring Language and PRAISE!
Strategies to work on Listening and Following Directions (Receptive Language)
Five Playful Ways to Work on Listening and Following Directions
Tips on Expanding Speech and Language in Specific Activities
Expanding Speech and Language During Crafts
Expanding Speech and Language at the Park
Expanding Speech and Language While Building Forts
How to Use Specific Products to Expand Speech and Language Skills
Expanding Speech and Language with Toys (Part One)
Expanding Speech and Language with Toys (Part Two)
Expanding Speech and Language with Toys (Part Three)
Expanding Speech and Language with Toys (Part Four)
Other Great Resources
A FANTASTIC site that I highly recommend checking out if you have a little one (especially ages 1-3) who is not talking/talking very little, is Little Stories. Kim is a fellow speech pathologist who provides some really great information for parents of young children with speech and language delays.
Another great site for parents of children with speech and language delays is Teach Me To Talk. Another site by a fellow speech pathologist, she provides a ton of information including pod casts on speech and language tips.
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Welcome! I'm Katie- a mama to two littles and a pediatric speech language pathologist. You'll find all kinds of goodies here about speech and language development and tips to help expand speech and language skills in children! I hope you enjoy your stay and learn a little along the way. Popular Topics
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hi, i am Farah’s DAD. My child age is 4 years. At this stage she can’t speak and walking. She just say GOD, MAMMA, PAPPA in her own language. what can i do now for her language. can you help me?
Hi There. I recommend you find a speech pathologist in your area who can give you some hands-on advice and help. Good luck!
I have a daycare and just love your Ideas for making our own books thanks Grace Enea a daycare provider,
What do you know about apraxia? What are the signs in a 2 year old?
Hi there! You can find some information on Apraxia on my Speech & Language 101 page
my daughter Eva is 2 and can only say mama papa dada nana wuv you byebye and hi no and yes. is this normal?
Could you email me some information on selective mutes? I teach Kindergarten and have one this year. I just started looking thru your website so if you cover this somewhere please dis reguard.
Thanks
Ms. C I have no experience with children with selective mutism, I am sorry! Have you asked around the SLP message boards?
Hi would you recommend preschool?… Do you think it will help?… I have a 4and a half year old who goes o a private monessori and wondering if I should enroll my almost 3year old who isn’t speaking too much
Hi Yvette. I am an advocate of preschool (play based preschools, not academic based) for children with delays. But every child is different. I have known many children who really thrived once they entered preschool. That said, if your child is almost and not talking very much, it is very important to have him/her seen by an SLP because there are some types of disorders that require an SLP’s interventions. Good luck!