It's the Little Things...

Hi there! I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and was able to reflect on all of the blessings in your life! Now that Thanksgiving is over, Christmas is in full swing! I’m here today to give you some ideas for gifts that can help promote or improve speech/language skills. I’ll share a few toys for younger children and games for older children, too! Lately, I’ve been reviewing toys and giving ideas for how to use them to help with your child’s speech/language skills. If you’ve missed those, you can find the posts (as well as amazon affiliate links to buy the toys that I’ve reviewed) on the farm , slide , books and the kitchen/grocery store . I still think each of those toys are GREAT for working on speech/language skills. But if you needed a few more ideas, keep reading! Here is a wonderful handout from the University of Texas at Dallas explaining different types of play and how to help as a parent. Now… onto the toys! Blocks Blocks are a simp...

I LOVE children’s books! As tough as it is for me to sit down and read a book for myself, I love to read books to kids both at home and at school. For a while, reading books was about all C wanted to do! The great thing is… you can embed so many speech and language skills into reading books. Reading the words typically gives a great example for sentence structure and more robust, descriptive and complex sentences than most children uses. Along with that, you can talk about the pictures, ask questions, make predictions, look for letters, talk about rhymes and so much more! Here are a few of our favorites from this season and why we love them. Links are Amazon Affiliate links. Spooky Wheels on the Bus This little book has been a favorite at home this month! C loves the familiar tune of the song, so he was singing along the first day we had the book! This book is great for toddler-preschool aged children. It introduces counting along with halloween vocabulary withou...