When your child is first learning to put words together, it can be tempting to use simple words or sentences with them. Through using language strategies such as expansion and extension, you can encourage your child to learn new language.
Changing seasons are great times to practice listening and extend your child’s listening skills. Whether you’re enjoying the spring showers and sun the leaves turn during autumn. Here are some some ideas for inside activities including arts and crafts to help build your child’s listening and language skills.
It’s important to ensure your child is actively listening in your interactions together. “Sabotage” is a strategy that can be used to not only check if your child is paying attention to the interaction, but to also extend their language development.
Listening and spoken language skills are critical skills for life. Developing clear speech will allow your child to communicate with others through language, and express themselves in sharing their ideas, concerns and thoughts. Here are our 7 tips for encouraging your child’s speech development. Firstly, let’s define speech—which is different to language. When someone is
Once your child has their cochlear implant and can hear their own voice, they will begin to play with making their first sounds. This is the perfect time to encourage your child to learn and make new sounds, which will lead to making their first words!
Learning a language happens in stages. There are lots of different rules and exceptions, and this is especially true for learning past tense verbs: what happened in the past. Here’s some information about how children develop their past-tense language skills, and 16 different activities you can do to help them learn past tense verbs.
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