Speech Journal RECORD YOUR CHILD’S EVER GROWING VOCABULARY! It is essential to document your child’s ongoing speech progress. Here is a great tool which is bound to help you! Open an excel sheet and make a chart of your child’s vocabulary.You can call it your child’s Speech Journal. Note the date when you start filling …
Helping Your Baby Create Language Your baby has started an incredible journey during this first year of life, one that develops a skill that will affect his whole life. Without language your child will not be able express his feelings, participate in school or in social groups with his friends, get into college or even …
Gene linked to speech disorder May be while talking about a good looking mother and daughter, or a brainy dad and son, or a family of obese parents & kids. These hereditary blocks that pass traits from parents to offsprings and further down the ladder are called genes! The most typical types of developmental delay …
Magical Words to Jumpstart Speech What are the magical words to jumpstart speech? There are four magical words that I always carry in my speech bag, and they are – one, two, three, start! As you can guess, this set of words can be used every time you want your child to do an activity or …
5 Techniques for Tongue Aerobics Tongue is one of the busiest muscles in a Speech Therapist’s body 🙂 Talking, Tasting, Swallowing, Chewing, Singing …all are possible because of this dynamic muscular oral organ. I do a lot of ‘tongue aerobics’ with kids who need to exercise their tongues to elicit clearer speech. Here is an insight – Home based …
Why Choose a translucent bag? Choose a translucent bag – If you have seen any of my sessions you would be familiar with this game. I employ this simple activity to work upon skills of- instruction following,comprehension, identification, differentiation, naming of different objects, along with language stimulation & expansion and turn takng. What do I …
Tips To Enhance Speech Development Of Your Child Speech Development Of Your Child, Children can communicate since their birth. Infact research shows that a foetus can communicate right from the 3rd trimester of pregnancy! It is important that an infant learns to pick up speech and language early on. Here are a few tips that …
The Magical World of Bubbles Bubbles are magic! Yes, they truly are.. For kids and even for the little kid hiding inside an adult. Bubble fun is my favourite activity in speech therapy sessions. You can do so much with these little popping blobs.. Be it with infants, toddlers, preschoolers or even little older children, the …
Structures and Routines Structures and Routines -Speech Therapy Structure, structure and only structure works best for your little one. I have a 4 month old baby and even she has a daily routine, out of which she starts getting cranky and irritable. Especially for children on the Autism spectrum, a crystal clear structure and routine …
Speak with your hands Communicate using words and hand/body gestures-1specialplace I stumbled upon this “just beats” track by B.Ames while downloading some music for my iPod..and I was totally fascinated by the title.. Speak with your hands!! Something which all of us do..without even realising. We all communicate using words and hand/body gestures. Ever noticed …