Stage 3: Helping your Child's Communication
In your home there may be some hurdles that get in the way of you helping your child with their home-play.
Please click on your choices from the following list if you think the statement is ‘helpful’ or a ‘hurdle’. A tick will show you were correct, or a cross that it was a wrong answer.
| Setting a fixed time to practice | ||||
| TV or music on in the background | ||||
| Allowing your child to play with toys at the same time | ||||
| Facing out of the window to do home-play | ||||
| Being enthusiastic and encouraging about home-play | ||||
| Asking others not to interrupt you both while practicing | ||||
| Avoiding criticism over errors, praising when successful | ||||
| Giving an appropriate reward when they complete it all | ||||
| Assuming they will grow out of their communication difficulty | ||||
| Leaving the home-play for the SLT at the therapy session | ||||
| Having a visual calendar of practice with reward stickers | ||||
| Asking somebody else to home-play, rather than yourself |