Ways to Encourage Your Child’s Communication Development For Young Children

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As your child’s speech and language skills develop there are activities and tips that you can do at home to enhance your child’s speech and language skills.

The American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) has compiled a list of activities and tips to encourage your child’s communication development.

Tips to Encourage a Child’s Communication Development For Young Children:

Talk, read, and play with your child.
Listen and respond to what your child says.
Talk with your child in the language that you are most comfortable using.
Teach your child to speak another language, if you speak one.
Talk about what you do and what your child does during the day.
Use a lot of different words with your child.
Use longer sentences, as your child gets older.
Have your child play with other children.

In Home Speech Solutions will be provides free speech and language screenings for families who are concerned about their child’s speech-language development. For more information on our free screenings, please call 813-485-4104 or visit www.speechtampa.com. Additionally, feel free to contact Dallas Speech Language Solutions if you have questions or concerns or if there’s anything we can help with.

Jennifer Price M.S., CCC-SLP Lead Speech-Language Pathologist & Owner