October 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: Prepositions
Find the Dogs. Use these dogs to help your child understand the prepositions by, behind, and in front. Can they find an animal when you describe where it is? Example: “Find the one by the table?” (receptive language). Challenge: Can they tell you where the animal is if you point to it “In front of the tree” (expressive language).
2: Yes and No
Is it a hat? This is a great page to practice answering yes/no questions and clothing vocabulary. Pointing to clothing when named is receptive language (this develops first). Telling the name of clothing when someone asks, “What’s this?” is expressive language (this develops later). Can your child point to or name the kinds of clothes they are wearing? Speech: initial /h/ (hat)
3: Pointing
Eye See You is a fun way to practice body parts on animals. Can your child point to their eyes? Try pointing to the eyes of people and animals in books. How many body parts can your child point to? (receptive language) Are they able to give the name of a body part if you point to it? (expressive language)
