Tips to bring speech therapy into normal activities – promoting generalisation) One of the best ways to bring therapy into normal activities is called generalization. This is when, the parent or teacher, points out items or sounds learned in therapy sessions and uses them in normal conversation. For example, if your son has been learning the …
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Fun Movement Activities for Speech Development Speech development activities, Motor movements including moving, crawling, sitting, standing are crucial parts of a child’s development. These skills help a child to explore his environment. This variety of movements in a child’s environment will help to grow. The American Academy of Pediatrics, 2007, explains, play is the “work …
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) The Picture Exchange Communication System is a systematic way to teach a child how to communicate with someone. This can be done by giving a picture of what the child wants to communicate. The program was originally designed for children with autism but can be used for other non-verbal children …
Lisping: All you need to know A lisp is a functional speech disorder, which makes learning a specific speech sound, or a few specific speech sounds difficult. How many of you know the cartoon character “Sylvester” he is a cat with a lisp. Yes, you heard that right, so if you want to know how …
Speech therapy tips for non-verbal children Non verbal therapy techniques, As a parent of a child the biggest challenges you could face relates to understanding your child’s wants and needs. A parent wants nothing more in this world than to be able to know when the child is hungry and what they would like to …
Developing Literacy at Home One of the most important things you can do to prepare your child for school success is to develop early literacy skills. Building literacy at home is all about having fun. All it requires is you, Children learn best not by being “taught”, but by having enjoyable interactions with their family. …
Speech Therapy for Down Syndrome during COVID 19 Speech Therapy for Down Syndrome during COVID 19, Present situation of the pandemic has been very stressful for everyone. This is especially more challenging for persons with special needs as there are no support services and habilitation services available. This in turn has increased the anxiety amongst …
Speech therapy for Apraxia-Tips and strategies Speech therapy for Apraxia-Tips and strategies, Childhood Apraxia of speech (CAS) is one of the Motor speech Disorder which affects a child’s ability to speak clearly. They have difficulty in planning to produce a speech sound and difficulty in sending neural signals to jaw, lips, and tongue to produce …
Aritculation Therapy : Teaching S and SH sounds Teaching S and SH sounds, Is your child finding it hard to get his/her /s/ and /sh/ speech sounds right? Did you know it is one of the most mispronounced speech sounds in all languages? Typically children learn to produce /s/ and /sh/ by 4 years of …
Tips for Children with Hearing Loss Hearing loss is one of the most common causes for speech and language delay in kids. Hearing loss not only causes delay in speech but also slows down learning . It has been most studied and documented. Recent studies suggest the earlier hearing loss is identified and intervened, the …