Activities, Resources & Ideas for Home
Let's Play, Let's Learn - Educational Activities, Resources & Ideas for Home
Parents are key for Child Development. How does parents playing activities, using resources & putting ideas into practice with their children help development?
When Parents choose to Learn New Strategies for Supporting Communication & Learning their children Learn New Skills. When parents seek out information such as ages & stages checklists, ideas for activities and resources that can be incorporated into everyday interactions and play with their child:
- Children talk more and use language more spontaneously
- A child learns targets along the developmental milestones
- Children generalise targets learnt at Speech Therapy or in the classroom to home settings
- A child with then maintain new skills over time
- Some children show greater than expected developmental gains in some language skills when parents support them in the home. This means the parents are giving them a great start to Kindy, Prep or the next level of curriculum at school
Educational Activities, Resources & Ideas for Home
For parents to be natural supporters of their child’s development they need:
- Information and training to increase their understanding of their child’s strengths and levels
- Handouts, workshop, individual training (e.g., Online Parent Training programmes)
- Up to date information about child targets and progress (e.g., reusable checklists across ages)
- Models of how to model, prompt, reinforce new speech or skills
- Activities that support child communication (e.g. books, games, videos)
SpeechNet Speech Pathology provides ALL of these parent supports via
- Our informative website is written with parent, carers and teachers in mind!
- Free resources
- Video blogs providing examples
- Online targeted books for speech and learning e.g., the Peppy the Clown “p” book, Mr Tongue story
- Printable handouts with specific direction of how to use common books and toys to boost speech, language and learning
- Online parent training in our portal that busy parents can access 24/7
- Developmental Checklists and milestone checks you can do at home 24/7
- Pop & Top Early & Late Talker & baby talks too Parent-baby groups run by speech pathologist so you get training right from the horse’s mouth
- Skype parent consults and therapy with the child
- Home visits to bring skills to the house using your toys and activities
- Active Facebook Page giving informative links ideal for parents
- Specially designed App for early imitation with parent scripts for each page
See More Ways to Develop a Child's Speech & Language Skills
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