Closing the Gap; Tips to improve your Child’s speech and language skills at home 

Speech and language development is a vital part of a child’s overall growth, forming the essential foundation for other crucial areas like social interaction, academic success, and emotional development.As a parent, being actively involved in your child’s speech therapy journey can make a huge difference .

Here are some tips to help you improve your child’s speech and language skills at home.

Conversational Techniques

• Modelling: Use simple language while interacting with your child and become a good model of speech 
• Self talk:Describe your own actions in a simple language 
• Parallel talk:Narrate what your child is doing.
• Expansion:Add one or two words to what your child says to build a longer,grammatically correct phrase. 

Interactive Activities: 

•  Reading together:Choose books with colorful pictures and simple text. Point to objects and name them. Ask your child to guess what might happen next.
• Singing song and Rhymes: The parent and child will be actively engaging by singing a rhyme and matching it with the appropriate movements.
• Narrating daily routines: Children learn language by hearing it in context. Everyday routines like getting dressed, cooking dinner, or going to the store are natural opportunities for building vocabulary.
• Playtime Conversations: During playtime, the child and the parent interact with each other.

At Sound plus we provided speech  I intervention, guidance to  parents implementing the strategies in a natural and effective way