Language At Home: Language Tips From an SLP's Home to Your Home

For this episode, you will need a bag or a container (metal lunch box, plastic take out food container, or a plastic pencil box) and art supplies (markers, crayons, stickers, notepad, scrap paper). All of these materials can be picked up at your local dollar store. 

This episode is focusing on keeping a child engaged for a flight, car ride, appointment, restaurant, or any other times they have have to sit and wait.

Here are the links for Fry and Dolch Sight words you can use for tracing activities:

https://sightwords.com/sight-words/dolch/

https://sightwords.com/sight-words/fry/ 

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For this episode, you will need plastic Easter eggs or any variation of eggs from your location store. You can also grab any toys you already have in the home and hide them in the eggs

This episode is focusing on the vocabulary and descriptors

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For this episode, you will need flower pots, egg cartons, or cups, as well as seeds and dirt.

This episode is focusing on the actions "pop" and three step sequencing

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For this episode, you will need bubble wrap, paint, and paper or cardboard. You can also use a rolling pin from playdough or pretend kitchen set

This episode is focusing on the action "pop" and expanding to 2 or 3 word phrases

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For this episode, you will need packaging foam or packaging peanuts. Cut up the foam with a knife or scissors into pieces. You will also need a container or bucket to put the foam pieces in. Use any toys from your home, such as vehicles, puzzle pieces, toy furniture, dolls, playdough cut outs, or animals. You can also use cups and utensils. 

This episode is focusing on the possessives "my" and "your", actions, vocabulary, object functions, and yes/no questions. 

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For this episode, you will need packaging foam or packaging peanuts. Cut up the foam with a knife or scissors into pieces. You can cut into any shape, but I prefer squares and rectangles to make building easier. Use any other toys in your home to use to make various structures. You may also want to use straws or popsicle sticks for STEM activities. 

This episode is focusing on the following concepts: cold, tall, short, big, small, in, out, next to, in front, behind, high, low, on top, and off. You can also work on following 1-2 step directions

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For this episode, you will need two rectangle tissue boxes

This episode is focusing on present progressive verbs (ending in -ing) and past tense verbs. Also, this will focus on forward/backward and slow/fast. 

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For this episode, you will need a cardboard roll (from paper towels or toilet paper), scissors (if you need to cut the rolls), paint, and paper.

This episode is focusing on colors, counting, plurals, shapes, and spatial concepts (on, next to, beside, over, under, above, below)

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For this episode, you will need an egg carton, crayons or markers, scissors, glue or tape, and either paint, cotton balls, or white scrap paper. You can always cut up junk mail or used envelopes for scrap paper. If using paper, cut your scrap paper into circles, triangles, or squares. Now, you are already for this episode!

This episode is focusing on emotions, shapes, spatial concepts (over, under, next to, behind), and descriptor concepts (same, different, tall, short)

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Welcome to this week's episode focusing on combining indoor snow-play and language!

Don't feel like dressing your kid to play in the snow and dealing with cleaning up after? Then bring the snow inside! If you are in an area that does not have snow, then make your own! Grab a lot of snow in a plastic container, water color paints, or food dye with water, plastic toys, cooking utensils, cups, or anything else to boost imagination. This episode is focusing on various actions, spatial concepts, the descriptor "cold", and when questions

I created a Pinterest account so I can post visuals for my ideas. You can find my account @languagesthomepodcast or get my link below.  If you are in an area that does not get snow, I pinned a fun recipe to create fake snow with baking soda and cheap hair conditioner on my Pinterest.

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This episode is more about me. Get to know why I got to this point of recording a podcast and how I developed my skill of turning anything into therapy. 

Are you a parent, teacher or a pediatric service provider? Do you want new and fresh ideas to do with your children or students? Do you want free or low cost materials? Are you trying to give your child a break from their tablet or device? Are you curious about language developmental milestones and how to use them in your every-day environment?

If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, then join me, a speech therapist, for my weekly episodes focusing on this. Before you throw that toilet paper roll out, you can use it in so many ways to have fun with your child. Same with that cardboard box, bubble wrap, packaging foam, egg cartons, and so much more. I will give you creative ideas to use these common objects with your child for a craft activity or during play. I will also point out ways YOU can facilitate language during play to help expose your child to new vocabulary and language concepts.