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
OT and PTs can have fun and creative activities for children. They provide good tactile and/or sensory activities that can also be great for practicing speech and language at the same time. This loom idea from the Inspired Treehouse is a perfect example! For instructions on this easy to make loom check it out here! http://theinspiredtreehouse.com/fine-motor-activities-simple-outdoor-weaving-loom/ We started first by cutting strips of material…a good fine motor activity. When my kids
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
My daughter loves Post it Notes. LOVES them. She loves writing some small scribble on them and then proudly sticking them up around the house to put on display. Today we drew pictures that included her target sounds to work on speech, but we also drew shapes to work on our pre-writing strokes for OT. Based on the response from my facebook post, my kid’s not alone in loving them!
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
Looking for a fun way to incorporate some speech practice into your summer schedule? All you need is some sidewalk chalk and your kid! I picked some sound combos Ashlynn is currently working on in speech and drew them in the boxes of a hopscotch grid. We then would throw a rock and whatever the rock landed on, we would hop to that picture and say the picture. She was