Speech language activities

The best way to help a child's speech and language development is through play. Here are 10 simple activities that you can do at home, including the key vocabulary to focus on, to help develop your child's speech and oral language. The key to these activities is about engaging with the child and using simple, useful language that matches the actions of play. This puts the language into context with what they are experiencing and gives them opportunities to hear, use and practice the language…

Use these simple language games to boost your toddler's speech! These proven methods use phonemic awareness-based learning to improve early literacy.

As a Pediatric Speech Therapist, these toys are at the top of my Speech Therapy Wish List this Christmas Season! (Yes, I ask for toys for Christmas!)Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “what should I buy the 2 year old on my Christmas List” or “what toys can I use with the 3 year olds on my caseload”. Well, I have included a mega list of toys that can be used in speech therapy with preschoolers (and even early elementary students ) or played with at home all year long!Even if you don’t…

By the age of one, your baby will develop both nonverbal and verbal language skills to communicate. To help your baby develop essential language milestones, here are 21 kids’ speech activities to foster listening skills and speech development for your baby! The best way to develop language skills by year one is through imagination and play.

Speech therapy at home is easier than you think! Click to find 18 different speech activities for kids that you can do at home, in the car or even at the store. These are the same speech strategies that therapists use to help a child’s communication skills.

Are you looking for ideas for speech therapy for toddlers? Whether you are a speech-language pathologist (or a parent), this blog post is stuffed with ideas, suggestions, and great activities to try with young children! You will find suggestions for toddler books, fun activities, language modeling strategies, and resources for SLPs. This post contains affiliate

Here are 7 fun and easy first day of speech activities your students will love! Great ways to get to know the kids and teach them routines.

A blog about articulation and language therapy games, ideas and activities for elementary school speech therapists.

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Can doing toddler speech delay activities with your child help with their language skills? You bet it can! If you need some help coming up with activities, we’ve got you covered! Today, we’re sharing some of our favorite easy and fun activities that help build language skills! Let’s check them…

Check out this blog post for tips and ideas for using a "what's in the bag?" activity to support early language skills in your EI sessions.

Great Ideas for Teaching is at it again! They have three new materials that I'll be sharing my review of over the next few days. First up, is Language Stimulation Activities! This material can be used to "provide structured, repetitious activities that will assist students in fully learning very important language terms...". It is intended for children in preK through 2nd grade. Each concept pair includes two student worksheets and two instructor worksheets. The student sheet includes four…

Do your students have goals to answer WH questions? Look no further than this post for the best resource to target WH goals!

Over the past five and a half years I have learned a lot while working as a school-based speech-language pathologist. When I first started I created a set of homework tasks cards called Toddler Toys and felt that it was time for an update. Through the years I have realized that many of my school-age children benefit greatly from play-based speech therapy and that these cards are not just for toddlers. So, I have updated the file and compiled 15 of my favorite, most used play-based speech…

Find the best children's books for speech and language development. Grouped by language areas, speech sounds, themes & ages. Reviewed by a Speech Pathologist.

Looking for a fun, creative, and interactive activity to add to your speech therapy routine? Our 'Who' questions flashcards are the perfect solution! Editable, printable and free of charge, these flashcards will keep your students engaged with stimulating speech exercises. Get ready to transform your therapy sessions, one 'Wh' at a time!

Looking for research-based techniques on how to teach action verbs in your preschool speech therapy sessions? Check out these tips.