Speech Language At Gombert

• What can we do at home to help
   
• Speech Language Tip of the Month: March
   
• Palabras Con Practica De Speech (PDF)

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What can we do at home to help?

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!

5-10 minutes a day will help speech language students to master their goals and become more effective communicators.

Speech Language is EVERYWHERE! You do not need to buy certain materials or make anything special. The easiest thing to do is talk to your child. Here are a few examples of speech and language activities that you might do everyday without realizing it:

• Asking your child “How was your day?”
• Talking about their favorite TV show or movie
• Reading with your child and talking about the story
• Playing “I spy”
• Road trip car games – “Name a food for each letter of the alphabet”

Other Home Suggestions

Articulation Activities:

View the tables below to see sample word lists for the most commonly misarticulated sounds. Practice saying these words at the word level, in sentences, and in conversation. Remember to use your best speech sounds!

/s/ Word Lists

/l/ word lists

/r/ word lists

Language Activities:

1. Scattergories

This is a family game that works on language expression. If you do not have the store version, you can make a homemade version of this game. Think of as many items in various categories as you can. These items will serve as your starting lists. Then choose a letter of the alphabet that all of your answers need to begin with. The object of the game is to be able to find items in each category that start with the particular letter before the timer runs out.

2. Guess Who?

This is a game that works on asking questions and correct sentence structure. The object of the game is to ask many yes/no questions to figure out who the other player has on their card. (i.e. Does your person have red hair?, Is your person wearing glasses?)

3. Guess the secret object

One person thinks of an object and gives clues about the object to help others figure out what the object is. Clues can deal with color, parts, function, where it can be found, the sound it makes, etc. The person who guesses the most objects correctly wins.

Fluency Activities:

These activities are great opportunities for you to model slow easy speech and give your child a chance to practice all of the fluency strategies they have been working on in speech. You can be creative with this as well, but here are a few suggestions:

• If you had 3 wishes what would you wish for? Why?
   
• If you won $1,000,000, what would you buy? Why?
   
• What is your favorite holiday? Why?
   
• If you were principal for a day, what would you do? Why?
   
• If you could make a new law, what would it be? Why?

Online Activities:

This is a list of web sites that will reinforce various speech language skills through games.

• Grammarcrackers http://www.quia.com/pages/grammarcrackers.html
   
• Speechers (artic) http://www.quia.com/pages/speechersclass.html
   
• Long and Short Vowels http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/phonics-mm.htm
   
• Artic Games http://www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html
   
• Print and Do (literacy) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/print/index.shtml
   
• Tongue Twisters http://www.geocities.com/athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html
   
• Word Blender http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/blender/index.shtml
   
• Writing sentences & poetry http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/
   
• Starfall http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/play.htm?f
   
• Awesome Analogies http://www.quia.com/cb/7146.html
   
• Grammar Blast http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html
   
• Idioms http://www.funbrain.com/idioms/
   
• Variety of activities http://www.funbrain.com/
   
• Wacky Web Tales http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
   
• Juniors Web http://www.juniorsweb.com/slp/?src=overture

Speech Language Tip of the Month

March
Encourage vocabulary development.

Read to your child; read with your child; expose your child to as many types of reading materials as you can (i.e. books, newspapers, comics, magazines, advertisements, environmental print, recipes). Talk to your child about the environment around you. Encourage your child to tell you about his or her day—what books he/she checked out at the library, who he/she sat by during lunch, something funny that happened at school, etc.