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Visit the TeacherWeb® videos to learn about the features, modifications, and customizations available on your website. Click here to learn more. Home Practice small medium large "Speech Therapy is like learning to play the piano...if you don't practice at home, you will not improve." Go to LINKS and play an online game. Work on your SPEECH SOUNDS with games on LINKS #10 or #11. Work on your LANGUAGE SKILLS with LINKS #12, #13, or #14. Try to include Speech practice into your daily activities as much as possible. If you are working on a specific sound (ARTICULATION): * Focus on your "Key Word" all week long...every time you say that word, do your best to use your best speech. * Go on a "Sound Hunt": * Take a walk outside and look for things that have your sound. * Go to the Mall or the Grocery Store and see how many things you can find with your sound. * Look through a magazine for pictures or words that have your sound. * When driving in your car, see how many things you can find with your sound. * Look for your sound in your spelling words. Keep speech practice fun and teach your child that good speech is not just for school. Don't focus on good speech when your child is tired or hungry. Keep it fun, and praise all efforts! For LANGUAGE THERAPY at home: * Give your child your full attention. Show him/her that what he/she has to say is important to you. * Many adults say too much, too quickly, or in too soft of a voice. Children stop listening if the message is too difficult to understand. * Give directions slowly, one step at a time. Point and gesture to get your point across, this will help your child learn to look for clues to understanding. * If your child has trouble answering a question, rephrase it in more simple words, give clues if that is helpful. * Model good speech by using good grammar, but don't expect your child to repeat sentences correctly. That could cause frustration for both of you. * Talk in sentences with good word order. Help your child organize events that happened. If your child STUTTERS: * Try to always focus on WHAT your child is saying to you, and not HOW he/she is talking. * Don't say things like "Take a breath" or "Say it again slowly", these commands put more focus on the difficulty the child is having. * We will be talking about our "Toolbox" in therapy which will be filled with speech management techniques, and our "Speech Machine" and what it does. * Frankly, you can not change what you do not understand. The goal is to help him/her understand what happens and have better control over stuttering. Sometimes that means "Easier Speaking", and sometimes that means "Easier Stuttering". For my Kindergarten students - check out LINK #8 for a really fun game like we play in Sound Club! I know it sounds like a cliche', but the best thing you can do with your child, at any age, is to READ together. Whether you have concerns with your child's speech and language development or his/her overall progress in school...reading skills are crucial for learning. Please check out my link to the National Institute for Literacy. This is a great Parent Guide that describes activities that you can do with your child to support his/her reading skills. I hope all of my Kindergarten Parents will check out this link! Automatically clean input to optimize for the web. Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? Password: Forgot your password?

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