Parent Communication Strategy Resources

Home Practice Games

Purpose:

To provide simple activities and tasks for home practice using these existing resources.

Description:

These ideas will create simple practical solutions for home practice to make it enjoyable and empowering. 

Resources:

• Home Speech Home – Twenty 5-Minute Speech Therapy Activities You Can Do at Home
• Mommy Speech Therapy – Practical Speech Therapy Activities for Home Practice
• Adventures in Speech Pathology – 5 Fun Speech Therapy Ideas For Parents To Do At Home

Communication Temptations

Purpose:

To provide strategies in any environment to create communication opportunities by modifying the environment.

Description:

These ideas provide practical ways to make changes in our environment and communication environments to provide the opportunity for a child to initiate a variety of  communication functions.

Resources:

• Sue Larkey – Using Communication Temptations to Motivate Communication 
• Home Speech Home – 15 Communication Temptations for Early Language Development
• Autism Partnership – Communication Temptations
• SLP Corner – Communication Temptations

Language development parent/ family strategies

Purpose:

To provide home communication strategies to facilitate language development for a child.

Description:

These websites for parents include general tips to develop and facilitate communication and language expression at home which is an excellent tool itself and complementary to therapy sessions.

Resources:

• The Hanen Centre® – Helpful information for parents and professionals
• Parenting Expert to Mom – Strategies to Encourage Language Development in Early Childhood
• Reading Rockets – Activities to Encourage Speech and Language Development
• Child Mind Institute – Helping Toddlers With Language Skills
• raisingchildren.net.au – Language development in children: 0-8 years

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