When exploring their world, children are naturally developing an understanding of spatial relationships – how objects and their own bodies exist in space. Spatial awareness and learning spatial concepts is an important language skill. Here's how to transform everyday games and activities into powerful learning experiences to help learn spatial concepts and increase their communication skills!

Singing to and with your child helps develop their speech and language skills! 3 tips for singing with your child.

Simple activities that don’t require much planning and materials are often the best for enriching a child’s speech and language skills

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develop your child’s speech-language skills from birth, one method that’s just as fun as it is powerful is reading aloud.

Having your child take the lead and building off of what they show interest in is a proven method of increasing communication.

Summertime speech should be just as fun whether you’re on vacation, at the beach, or relaxing at home

From the ages 0 to 5 your child is rapidly growing and increasing their language skills. Speech and language milestones are great!

Take some time each day to model language for your child in meaningful ways and with interesting activities.

An important skill to teach your little one is how to ask for help.

Babbling is sometimes referred to as baby talk and brings to mind combinations like “goo goo” and “gaga.”

When modeling language for your child, there are a few things to avoid that will make your activities more effective!

Set aside 5-10 minutes to play and engage with your child.

Naming, commenting, and imitating what your child says and does are great strategies to use throughout the day.

Reflecting on what you're doing is as important as reflecting on what your child is doing.

Validate all communication! If your child is pointing, gesturing, signing, or using another modality to communicate with you, honor that!

There are so many reasons why we communicate and a variety of functions that we use language for.

Caregiver coaching is a therapy approach SLPs (Speech-Language Pathologists) use, especially for early intervention and as a part of a child

Have you ever guessed what your child was trying to say?