Comprehensive Speech and Therapy Center, Inc.
Improving Your Child’s
Speech and Language Development
You can stimulate your infant’s speech and language by….
- Responding to and imitating their sounds
- Talking to them during their daily care
- Reciting nursery rhymes and songs
- Playing simple music
- Looking at simple books and talking about the pictures
- Saying the name of everyday items and familiar people
You can stimulate your toddler’s speech and language by…..
- Rewarding and encouraging their efforts to speak
- Reading books frequently
- Talking about new situations before you go, while you’re there, and when you are home
- Looking at your child when they speak to you and responding to their words
- Model speech and language appropriately
- Asking questions to stimulate additional thoughts and language
- Talking about what you are doing
- Helping your child listen and follow instructions by playing games: “pick up the ball”, “touch daddy’s nose”
- Carrying on a conversation with him/her
- Having your child deliver a simple message for you, “Tell daddy dinner is ready”
- Expanding on what your child says, “big boat”, “The big boat is in the water”
You can stimulate your preschoolers speech and language by…
- Talking about similarities or differences between things
- Encouraging your child to tell stories using books and pictures
- Helping your child classify objects and things for example “What kinds of things can you ride in?”
- Having your child participate in planning events
- Letting him/her make up stories
- Not expecting perfection in the way he/she pronounces words
- Encouraging your child to use language to express his feelings, ideas, dreams, wishes and fears
- Commenting on what you did or how you think you child feels; this will stimulate more speech than a direct question
Remember you child will understand more than he/she will be able to say.
Comprehensive Speech and Therapy Center, Inc.
1001 Laurence Avenue, Suite B
Jackson, MI 49202
517-750-4777
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