Stage 3: Helping your Child's Communication
Step 11: Bridging the Speech, Language, Communication Gap
You can assist in your child’s development in every interaction, every day.
- Talk normally, not using baby words
- Have a chat about their day
- Say aloud everything you do
- Play turn-taking games, such as Snap or I-Spy
- Watch dance videos to help their coordination
- Colour in books and describe pictures
- Turn off tv/music and read
- Ask them to read aloud simple words, e.g. bus, toilet, shop
- Ask them to name objects
- Join a library and read books together
- Keep a scrapbook
- Take them to free play-group
- Count what you see around you
- Exaggerate your facial expression and gesture
- Say what you see having around you, e.g. the man is walking his dog in the park
- Emphasise the most important word in a sentence, e.g. that’s a DOG
- Practice Home-play every day
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