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5 Playful Fall Activities to Expand Your Toddler’s Speech & Language Development

October 31, 2013 by Katie Filed Under: How to Help Your Child Talk, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Playful Ways to.....Series 5 Comments

Fall is my most FAVORITE time of year! I’ve collected FIVE Playful FALL activities that I think would be super great for building speech and language skills in your toddlers. I’ve provided my tips for encouraging speech and language development for each activity below. General Tips When Doing these Activities: Slow down and be present […]

Autumn Gross Motor Jump {for Speech & Language Skills}

October 11, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 6 Comments

I’ve mentioned before that I LOVE little boys and how much energy they have. Trying to have a 3 or 4 year old sit for 30-60 minutes at a time at a table to do any type of activity (like speech and language therapy) can be challenging, but especially for boys (and girls  too!) who […]

Fall and Halloween Speech and Language Roundup

October 4, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 6 Comments

Last year I did several Fall and Halloween posts incorporating crafts, activities, and therapy ideas that can be adapted for use in therapy sessions or by parents at home to help expand speech and language skills. I thought it would be nice to have all these posts in one place! Just click on the picture […]

Apple Roll and Cover {Freebie}

August 17, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Freebie Friday, Guest Post, Therapy Ideas and Activities 1 Comment

Today we have another awesome FREEBIE! Brea is sharing with us a great activity that will probably go with one of your themes this fall. I know I often use an Apple Theme in September and I look forward to using this! Thanks Brea! ~Katie **************************************************************** I’m planning on starting my year with my preschoolers […]

Friday Freebie: Falling Leaf Language Activity

November 17, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Freebie Friday, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 22 Comments

I was checking out some other speech therapy blogs this week and came across a great post from Jenna at Speech Room News on how she used some foam leaves to work on “wh” questions with her students. Her post inspired me to think up a fun activity to target toddler and preschool language skills […]

Owl Finger Puppet Tutorial (and Fingerplay!)

November 11, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Children's Songs and Fingerplays, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 46 Comments

The last couple months, my daughter E and I have been learning a a lot of new songs and fingerplays. Songs and fingerplays are an AWESOME and FUN way to help your child learn new language. They also are setting your child up to be better readers as songs and fingerplays, especially the ones that […]

Hand-print Spiders for Halloween!

October 29, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 10 Comments

Today we made some hand-print spiders for Halloween! Even in such a SIMPLE craft like this, there are so many opportunities to learn and use language.   Here is what you will need Black construction paper White crayon Scissors Hole Punch Glue PomPoms Googly Eyes Yarn Vocabulary you may use/target during the activity Paper Glue […]

Hand-Print Pumpkins Craft

October 23, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Family Life, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 12 Comments

I LOVE LOVE LOVE doing arts and crafts projects with my children, as well as in my therapy sessions. There are so many language learning opportunities when doing a craft project with a child or group of children: following directions, basic concepts and vocabulary development, etc. In the theme of fall and Halloween, this week […]

There Was an old Lady Who Swallowed a…BAT!

October 18, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Books and Literacy Activities, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities 13 Comments

I’m sure you remember the book from your childhood, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly? You know, that fat old lady that was ingesting cows and horses and flies? Well the chick just can’t get enough because that story has sparked the creation of several like books…and in this one she prefers […]

Speech Therapy Activities: Fall and Halloween

October 17, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Therapy Ideas and Activities, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 7 Comments

Though I am writing this post to share my favorite therapy activities with fellow SLPs, I think many parents will find this post informative as well…parents can use some of these activities at home with their children to have fun bringing in the season! It seems at the beginning of every school year, we SLPs […]

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