Speech Therapy Activities
The focus of this blog explaining more about your child’s speech problem and showing you how you can help them at home. My plan is to talk about some kind of speech problem on each blog post, talk about how that problem may impact your child, and suggest home activities. A follow-up to each blog post will be a podcast related to the subject of the blog. A summary of the information in the blog will be paired with specific activities for different situations.
Typically speech therapy for children is aimed at helping learn communication skills to speak and listen more effectively. There are many different ways to provide speech therapy, depending on the child’s needs, the setting, the availability of a speech therapist, finances and others. Many insurance companies do not cover speech problems that are considered “developmental.” Contact your provider to see what type of speech therapy your coverage approves before you consider speech therapy for your child.
Research has shown that for children to learn a new skill consistency of support across various settings is effective. What does that mean to you?
Consistency - doing the same thing and expecting the same result; the whole team is working on the same thing and expecting the same results from the child
Support - helping the child use the skills learned in therapy everyday; practice makes perfect
Across Settings - using these supports at home, out in the community, when in new situations, anywhere the child needs support to interact
I repeat: practice is a GREAT way to develop a skill. I remember hating to practice piano when I was young. I loved to just sit and play silly songs, but the practice was hard! So I needed to do both to increase my keyboard skills. Of course we all know the more you do something, the better you get, whether it’s painting, playing basketball, or speaking using good speech skills.
I hope through this blog and accompaning podcast, you can learn ways to help your child at home in ways to help increase progress toward good speech.
In addition to this blog and podcasts, Salamon Speech Therapy provides individual coaching programs. We can review your child’s IEP, discuss goals and objectives with you, and develop a set of activities you can use at home with your child. Send an email to DrJudy@SalamonSpeechTherapy.com and we’ll set up a time for us to discuss how we can help.
