April Early Intervention Speech Activities You Can Do At Home
Three activity ideas you can do with your toddler to boost their speech and language skills.
1: Learning Verbs
Learning verbs, or action words, are a great way to build your child’s vocabulary.
If they don’t have many words, start by talking about an action while your child is doing it, such as, “You’re eating a snack.”
You can also talk about what others are doing in pictures and videos.
Tip: Try pointing to characters when reading a book and label the action, “Look, they’re dancing.”
2: Yes and No
Identifying pictures?
Use this picture to practice answering yes/no questions and animal vocabulary.
Pointing to animals when named is receptive language (this develops first).
Telling the name of animals when someone asks, “What’s this?” is expressive language (this develops later).
Can your child point to or name what’s in these pictures?
(bunny, bunny, butterfly, snail, bunny)
3: Identifying Sounds.
This activity uses familiar objects and repetition to practice the /p/ sound.
These lines / / are a marker to say the SOUND /p/ and not the letter's name, P.
P is usually one of the first sounds that kids learn to make (in English).
Is your child having a hard time?
Show them how you make it. Think of what your lips do when you make the /p/ sound.
