If your child has a speech delay, your SLP will most likely tell you that you need to create opportunities so your child HAS to communicate to you what he/she wants. I found these cheap magnet clips for the fridge at the dollar store! You can take pictures of items in your fridge, and then clip them to the outside. Depending on your child’s level, you can
Sorting is an important foundational skill that sets up the building blocks for logical thinking and organizing. These skills are necessary for later educational development in math (i.e. order of operations, geometry), reading (identifying main idea and relevant details), and writing (developing a topic sentence and organzing relevant details). Most parents have simple puzzles like this at home. When my daughter was two, I held the pieces and gave her
The other night I was reading this book to Ashlynn. If you’re not familiar with the “David” books, they center around the main character David who is mischievous and frequently getting into trouble. These books are great for early print awareness! As you can see, the print is larger and is written as though a child wrote it. Ashlynn kept pointing out all the capital letters she recognized from