Speech activities for preschoolers

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.

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

How do you incorporate speech therapy targets when playing with playdough? This post is for you if you’re looking for speech, language and communication arwas to focus on when engaging in playdough activities with your child. From stories to speech sounds and gestalt language to vocabulary and concepts, speech therapy activities like playdough can help with supporting your child’s development

These hands-on, playful, and engaging phonological awareness activities for preschoolers will get them reading ready!

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…

I wanted to give you 10 speech therapy ideas to do at home because you, as the parent, are your child's best teacher. I am a play therapist (not an SLP), so I work with many speech-delayed children, in conjunction with their speech-language pathologist (birth-age 3) and these activities work great with them in the home,

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.

It’s freebie day! I’m always thinking of ways to help my little guys understand the vocabulary that is being used… and I thought with this activity, I might be ahead of the game! Plus, who doesn’t love a mini book?!?! They are cute and fun AND functional. Simple and right to the point! I have […]

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…

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.

Helping develop your child's speech through play. We're always told not to compare children. They're all different and all do things in their own way, in their own time. In fact, a favourite quote of mine is, "Not all children are ready to learn the same thing at the same time in the same way." - Kathy Walker However, even knowing and understanding all of this, when my son did not start to communicate verbally in a similar way to how his older sister had, I admit that I felt quite concerned…

Download this free rainbow craft for using with your speech and language students this spring! Make this using the Dice and Dot resources!

Download these free picture mats to build vocabulary in preschool and kindergarten. These are great for English language learners, too! #vocabulary

Bring Spring inside the speech room with these 10 Spring Activities for Speech Therapy! From life cycles to sensory boxes, there's something for everyone!

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Articulation cards are a staple in Speech Therapy rooms. Articulation Flash Cards can be used in so many ways with preschoolers and elementary students... buuuttt sometimes they can get boring and repetitive. Check out these articulation card ideas to bring some new and exciting speech therapy activities into your therapy room! You can use these ideas in group therapy or in one-on-one sessions or even send them home for easy articulation homework ideas! • WHAT’S THERE?: Place 5 cards around…

Discover engaging speech therapy ideas for parents to boost speech sound practice at home. Make learning fun and effective with these simple activities.