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Cars, Trucks, Boats and Planes\u2014And Don\u2019t Forget a Bus! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Small vehicles are great for getting kids talking, taking turns and building their knowledge of action words like vroom vroom and beep beep.<\/li>\n
- Announce \u201cready, steady\u2014go\u201d before driving over little body parts.<\/li>\n
- We\u2019ve heard from many out there in the field that children often say the word \u201cbus\u201d before car, so if you can find a bus, it\u2019s sure to be a favorite.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Wind Up for Fun<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A walking robot, monkey with cymbals, hopping frog\u2014there are so many fun wind-up toys out there to choose from.<\/li>\n
- Practice requesting words like \u201cmore\u201d and \u201cplease.\u201d These little movers are a great way to introduce and reinforce \u201cgo\u201d with the phrase \u201cready, set\u2026.go!\u201d<\/li>\n
- You may also work on concepts like \u201cdown\u201d by winding one up and asking the child, \u201cWhere should I put this?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Books and Songs<\/strong><\/p>\nAll books are wonderful. But especially ones that have a lot of repetition and encourage noise-making.\u00a0 Here are some suggestions:<\/p>\n
\n- Books of Songs like Old Mac Donald, Head\/Shoulders\/Knees\/Toes, Wheels on the Bus, etc<\/li>\n
- Moo Ba La La La \u2013 Sandra Boynton (and almost any of her books)<\/li>\n
- Any of the Brown Bear, Brown Bear books<\/li>\n
- Animal Sound Books \u2013 I love Eric Carle Around the Farm, and Hear Bear Roar<\/li>\n
- You can always add your own sound effects to a favorite story!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Bath time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Following directions: \u201cGive me your duck.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Identifying toys: \u201cWhich one is the duck?\u201d when paired with another toy.<\/li>\n
- Identifying body parts: \u201cTouch your nose.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Naming toys: \u201cWhat is this called?\u201d<\/li>\n
- Modeling sounds: Splash! Pshhh, pop pop pop!<\/li>\n
- Modeling words: (nouns) tub, water, bubbles, soap, towel, shampoo, body parts, various toys; (verbs) wash, dry, pour, pop, blow, brush; (core words*) in, out, all done, all gone, more, want, up, down<\/li>\n
- Expand single words into phrases: Time for bath. Take a bath. Fill it up. Wash face. In cup. Water out. Water on. All done. Get out. Bye bye water. Toys in.<\/li>\n
- Most children love the bath. They are not only contained in the tub, which will improve attention skills but they can use a variety of toys and containers to stimulate language. Bubbles, bath toys, bath colors, and bath fizz balls are all special items only for bath time. They serve as great reinforcements to make bath time special<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Meal Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Following directions: \u201cGet a cup.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Identifying items: \u201cWhich one is the spoon?\u201d when paired with another utensil. Naming toys: \u201cWhat is this called?\u201d<\/li>\n
- Modeling sounds: Yumm! MMM! BRR cold! HHHH hot!<\/li>\n
- Modeling words: (nouns) spoon, fork, cup, plate, bowl, fridge, bottle, juice, milk, water, various food names, napkin; (verbs) sit, pour, stir, clean, eat, drink, bite, cut, wash, blow; (core words*) in, out, all done, all gone, more, want, mama, up, down<\/li>\n
- Expand single words into phrases: Time to eat. Wash hands. Cold juice. More please. In the sink. Sit down. Pour it. All done. Want more? My spoon, Juice in. My cup. Wipe hands.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
\n- Mealtime is a great time for requesting food items. Wait for your child to request his favorite snack by giving him just one small piece or tempting him by placing the food item out of reach<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Swing Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- If you have a swing set, use these words to prompt them to finish the phrase. Before sliding down, hold them and say \u201cready, set, go\u201d several turns, then just say the \u201cready, set\u201d and try to get them to say go. Once they do that, hopefully all you have to say is \u201cready\u201d and they will finish the phrase!<\/li>\n
- With the swing, \u201cready, set, go\u201d and swing a few times, stop them and do it again using the same pattern as describes above.<\/li>\n
- You can also do swinging with single word imitation. For example, take a word or sound they are saying and while standing in front of them, pull forward the swing and say the word, like \u201cmommy\u201d or \u201cbububu\u201d and let go. Let them swing once or twice, and catch them, then say \u201cmommy\u201d and let go. Do this a few times until they get the idea and start saying the word with you. Start adding new words or sounds to imitate. Don\u2019t get frustrated just try to have fun. Lots of smiles and positive reinforcement.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Sidewalk Chalk<\/strong><\/p>\nDraw the things that make noise! Cars (one can go beep, one can honk), animals and faces (smile = yay, mad face = grrr, sad face = boo hoo).\u00a0 Then jump and run around and when you stop on one make that noise encouraging them to do so as well. This works well with a treat reinforce \u2013 one tiny snack (fruit snack, goldfish, m&m) each time they make the sound.<\/p>\n
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Bubbles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Pop! Blow! Woosh!\u00a0 More! Bubble! Say these!!!<\/li>\n
- Oral motor on blowing them on their own \u2013 test different wands and such<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Try counting them as the float. Describe them as \u201cbig\u201d or \u201clittle\u201d, blow \u201cfast\u201d and “slow”.<\/p>\n
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Thank you Ann for all these great ways to incorporate speech into daily play and activities at home. <\/strong><\/p>\nIf you have any questions for Ann she can be reached at acobb@gigisplayhouse.org.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our Speech Pathologist Ms. Ann was kind enough to join our 2 & Under program virtually this past Saturday and she shared a lot of great ideas for families to continue working on speech while at home.\u00a0 A few weeks ago we shared a few blogs with speech tips and tricks. Some of those are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1562,1749,157],"class_list":["post-18132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amina-grace-speech-and-language","tag-gigis-programs-at-home","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}