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

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!

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.

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

When modeling language for your kids, try not to use the same ones over and over.

These strategies are easy, fun, and natural ways to model language

Gestalt language processing is natural language development.

ongue ties occur when the lingual frenulum (tissue fold under the tongue) is short and/or tight enough to affect the function of the tongue

If your child is non-speaking or minimally speaking, they could be a GLP!

When modeling language at home, it’s best to focus on core words rather than academic words.

Daily routines throughout the day like meals, getting dressed, and bath time are excellent opportunities for language learning

There are many stages and types of play. Play is an awesome way to engage in meaningful learning and communication!

Play skills are an important part of language development and to kids, play is work! Let’s talk about the power of play.

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