Category: Homework Tips

Goal Area: Articulation Carryover

  Materials needed: Song Lyrics, jar with marbles, balls, etc.  Activity directions: Find song lyrics or look up a Youtube Karaoke version of one of your child’s favorite songs.  Have your child sing their favorite song. Every time you hear an accurate target sound production, you can place a marble or another small item in the jar. At the end, you and your child can count up the marbles and see how many sounds they made.  Disclosure statement: These activities have been designed for children who are currently receiving services and should not act as a substitute to weekly speech and language therapy.Please contact Wee Speech, P.C. for more information about this or other activities that may benefit  your child at 847-329-8226 or office@weespeech.com.

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Goal Area: Carry Over Articulation

Materials needed: Pretend play with  dolls/figures 5-7 year olds  Activity directions: Stack the Deck: Pick out and label with your child, vocabulary that has target sound/sounds (e.g. for /s/ Barbie dress, house, necklace, skirt, shoes, slippers, sandals, purse) group those together and then talk about the setting for your play that has to have the target sound in it like a “palace” in “Spain” then talk about actions such as “dressing”, “dancing”, “swimming” Model:  Name your character (e.g. Cecily, Sergeant Steve) and act out different scenes incorporating the brainstormed vocabulary while encouraging your child to play along with their own character Retell:  Have your child retell the pretend story you played using his or her target sounds  Helpful tips (if

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Goal Area: Expressive Language

Salient Features Materials needed: no materials to prep, play this game within your house or even places in the neighborhood Activity directions: Take turns picking out one item in the room to describe; don’t tell the other player the name of the item! Using the parameters of the game ‘I Spy’ use salient features to describe an item Features one can use include: an object’s function, its physical description (color, size, texture,) the letter the item starts with or its location Guess the child’s item he/she is describing! Helpful tips: You can verbally prompt your child if she/he is having difficulty initially; ask question such as, “What would I use this thing for?” or “What’s it made of?” while trying

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Goal Area: Articulation

Materials needed: string, beads, target words Activity directions: Create a bracelet or necklace while practicing speech sounds. The child earns one bead to place on the string for each target word produced. Helpful tips (if applicable): Be sure to ask your child’s therapist for appropriate targets to practice.  Disclosure statement: These activities have been designed for children who are currently receiving services and should not act as a substitute to weekly speech and language therapy. Please contact Wee Speech, P.C. for more information about this or other activities that may benefit  your child at 847-329-8226 or office@weespeech.com.

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Goal Area: Articulation

Materials needed: flashlight, target words/pictures, tape Activity directions: Tape the target words/pictures to a wall Turn off the lights Use a flashlight to find the target words Practice saying the target words as they are found with the flashlight Helpful tips (if applicable): Be sure to ask your child’s therapist for appropriate targets to practice.  Disclosure statement: These activities have been designed for children who are currently receiving services and should not act as a substitute to weekly speech and language therapy. Please contact Wee Speech, P.C. for more information about this or other activities that may benefit  your child at 847-329-8226 or office@weespeech.com.

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Goal Area: Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary

Materials needed: Laundry basket and clothing Activity directions:  Have your child help with sorting the laundry. You can set up multiple laundry baskets to sort between various members of your family.  While sorting the laundry, model phrases such as “mommy’s sock”/ “daddy’s sock.” You can also work on sizes and have your child label “big pants” or “little pants.”  This activity can also be used receptively. For example, you can have your child find all of the socks and put them into a basket. In addition, you can work on early prepositions, such as “in,” “out,” and “on.”  Helpful tips (if applicable): If your child has difficulty identifying various clothing items, hold up the clothing item you want the child

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Goal Area: Expressive Language

Goal area: Length of Utterance, Following Simple Directions, Vocabulary, Pretend Play Materials needed: Various toy items, including puzzle pieces, play food, little figures, cars, etc., tin foil (or something to wrap the toys in), large bowl, spoon, stuffed animal Activity directions:  Collect 4-5 toy items, wrap the toys in aluminum foil, and have your child unwrap each toy.  When they unwrap an item, they can place the toy into the bowl as an ingredient for their soup.  You can have your child label the item, put the item in a carrier phrase, such as “I need ___”, or provide two different size spoons and have your child request a “big” or “small” spoon.  You can also model verbs such as

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Goal Area: Expressive Language

Goal area: Length of Utterance, Following Simple Directions, Vocabulary, Pretend Play Materials needed: Home items (3 clothing items, 3 fruits, 3 drinks, 3 toys, etc.) Activity directions: Gather the items Put items in a box Describe what you do with the items Label the category of the related items, present two related and one unrelated object and decide which item doesn’t belong and why Disclosure statement: These activities have been designed for children who are currently receiving services and should not act as a substitute to weekly speech and language therapy. Please contact Wee Speech, P.C. for more information about this or other activities that may benefit your child at 847-329-8226 or office@weespeech.com.

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Goal Area: Expressive Language

Verbal Description Materials needed: 10 household items (e.g. soap, mirror, towel, fork, cup, remote, etc.) Activity directions:1. Gather items in a box2. Label/touch the items3. Describe where you find the items in the house (targeting location)4. Describe what you do with the items (targeting object function) Disclosure statement: These activities have been designed for children who are currently receiving services and should not act as a substitute to weekly speech and language therapy. Please contact Wee Speech, P.C. for more information about this or other activities that may benefit your child at 847-329-8226 or office@weespeech.com.

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Goal Area: Expressive Language

Child will increase early two word combinations (e.g. verb+noun; verb+location, possessive noun+object) Materials needed: A variety of laundry items, several laundry baskets, family’s seasonal clothes (e.g. hat, scarf, gloves)  Activity directions: Sort through various items in the laundry basket focusing on  specific two word combination (e.g. put in, take out, big shirt vs. little pants,  mommy’s socks, daddy’s pants etc.)  Use  repetition and modeling of forms alternating between two word targets and expansion phrases  Ex: “mommy’s socks” “Look, I can put mommy’s socks in this pile.”  Use specific vocabulary words and phrase ( put in in the basket vs. put in there  OR Give me the big sock vs. get me that one.” Helpful tips:  Make it silly  to engage

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