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It’s Easter time. Your child is on a break from school but you may be concerned that this break, once again, in routine, may impact on your child’s progress or maintenance of learned speech and language skills. But don’t worry, you don’t have to forgo holiday time to keep up to date with Speech and Language Work. There are fun ways you can incorporate your child’s speech and language work into your day-to-day routines and activities. This allows you to continue to support their ongoing Speech and Language development. Here are a few activities you can try, which are sure to engage your child over the Easter break. Easter object hunt. Depending on what space you have, decide on 10 items you want to “hide” around or outside your house (perhaps with a suitable treat attached). Make a list of these items. Pick an item e.g. a ball. Give your […]

Top Tips for Supporting Speech Sound Development   Speech sound development can take time with many children but can cause frustration and upset for your child if they are not being understood. Read below our top tips for aiding speech sound development and limiting your child’s frustrations.   Listen to what your child’s message is rather than how they are saying it and always reply. Reduce your own pace when speaking to allow maximum opportunity for your child to listen and hear your clear speech. Model good pronunciation and repeat back your child’s utterance with clear accurate pronunciation so they can hear it clearly. Take the blame if you can’t understand e.g. ‘Mammy’s ears weren’t turned on that time” “sorry there was too much noise around when you were talking” and ask them to say their message again or show you what they meant. Give other listeners the context. If […]