Parents Learning Together

Our Speech-Language Team recommend these great strategies to help encourage language building in the home:

• Create language rich moments by reading books and singing songs together
• Emphasize a target sound or word when you talk Repeat words or phrases back to your child correctly when they’ve made a mistake but don’t expect them to repeat you
• Follow your child’s lead, respond with interest and join in the play
• Narrate what you and your child are doing using short, simple phrases (i.e. you’re driving the red car up the ramp!)
• Expand on your child’s phrases by adding 1-2 words
• Use a variety of language: questions, describing words, action words, feeling words, location words, social words, and words that express belonging

For more information on home strategies, tips by age, and information on communication milestones, check out: Talk Box – A Parents Guide to Creating Language Rich Environments