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A Speech Delay Christmas - A Parent's Guide To Language Development This Holiday Season.
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items From one mom of a speech delay toddler to another mom. For reference, my toddler is 3 years old and is currently in speech therapy for expressive language delay and phonology disorder. Below are toys he uses in therapy every week, as well as toys we ...
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Speech Development Toys For Kids Ages 3-6
Parents Guide And Resources
Let's Read All About It
Speech Development Toys For Kids Ages 3-6
These are toys either used in our son's current therapy appointment, toys recommended by other parents with kids who have speech delays, or toys I have found while researching. If anyone has any questions about these toys, please let me know, I would...
Cutting food is one of our favorite toys right now and is one actively used in speech therapy. This is good for “on, off, push, pull, naming fruit, etc”. This toy is also great if your little one needs help “cutting” and getting use to using a knife ...
Melissa & Doug Cutting Food For Ages 3+ With Over 25 Painted Wood Pieces
My son loves hearing the sounds of words, and this has helped him bridge the gap that can be between written words, sound, and images. It has quickly become a hit in our home!!
Ms. Rachel Official First Words Talking Flash Cards with Electronic Reader ...
This is honestly such a cool kit to help kids with learning letter sounds and begin practicing reading. This kit gives an introduction to reading through phonics by learning the most common sound of each letter and how to break up words into sounds. ...
The Reading Skill Set Part 1: Sounds to Reading & Phonics | Lovevery
How fun is this?? My toddler loves rolling the dice! Six colorful interactive foam cubes featuring 36 conversation prompts. So many ways to learn and play!
Let's Talk Cubes From Learning Resources Ages 5+
My son LOVES learning about the alphabet. He is also beginning to understand the sounds that come with the letters flipbook.
Learning Resources Skill Builders! Preschool Flipbook Library: Educational Teaching Aid for Toddlers, 3-Piece Set
This toy is great for learning animals, working on animal sounds, “open”, “close”, and more! Kids can take farm animal fun wherever they go with the Take-Along Sorting Barn! Fit the 10 wooden play pieces into shaped holes in the sturdy wooden barn, o...
Melissa & Doug Take-Along Wooden Sorting Barn Learning Toy with Flip-Up Roof, Handle, Farm Play Pieces
This toy is great for ages 4+. My toddler is a big fan of Paw Patrol right now, so I know this will be a BIG hit!!
Melissa & Doug PAW Patrol Wooden See & Spell Pup Pad Game: Educational Reading and Writing Kit
As a mom of a toddler who not only has a speech delay but is always working on turn taking this has been a great toy to incorporate. We have been practicing colors, letters and numbers but also taking turns by saying “mama turn, Camden turn”.
Melissa & Doug Ms. Rachel Letter, Number, and Game Wooden Learning Blocks with Activity Cards
Perfect for the fridge! I love making my morning coffee or breakfast and looking over to see my toddler playing with these animal alphabets asking me what animal it is! We love a 2 in 1 toy! Animals and letters - we love it.
Joyfy Magnetic Letters, 26 Alphabet Fridge Magnets for Toddlers & Kids, Animal Educational Toys, Preschool ABC Spelling Learning Toys for Kids Infant
As a mom of a car obsessed toddler, your little car lover will get good use out of this Service Station Parking Garage! The cars go “up” and “down” in the elevator, park and “stop” in the numbered spots, slide “go”.
Melissa & Doug Service Station Parking Garage With 2 Wooden Cars and Drive-Thru Car Wash
My toddler loves animals and learning all about them he is going to love touching each picture to hear the animals say toddler-appropriate words along with exciting facts and sound effects. I just know this will be in our travel bag.
LeapFrog Learning Friends 100 Words Book - An Interactive Learning Book
This is a must for my toddler this year!!! I just know this will be thrown all over our house 😂Toss it back and forth to hear this ball say the ABCs or count to 10!
Melissa & Doug K's Kids 2-in-1 Talking Ball Educational Toy - ABCs and Counting 1-10: Fine Motor Skills, Multiple Activities
Parents Guide And Resources
Whether you are looking for suggestions on how to help your kid(s) or looking for information on speech and language, I hope this section helps! Below, I have added books, tools, printouts, language development information, and more.
This is a great resource if you’re looking for a general idea of the ASHA association and everything they have to offer!
Suggestions for Parents: Speech and Language Development
I have personally incorporated many of these activities! Early and social interaction skills are essential for every child to get the best start in life. Check out this book for fun activities!
Speech Therapy for Toddlers Develop Early Communication Skills With 137 GAMES Designed by a Speech and Language Therapist Activities for Pre-School
100 cards of things my toddler often sees! These cards have done wonders to help bridge the gap between certain words and pictures!
Speech Articulation Cards Learning Printable Flash Cards for Kids Speech Therapy Game Instant Downloadable Teaching Tool for Toddlers
I personally use this game to get my toddler thinking but having him hand me the toy I am saying. “hand me something blue” “hand me the bear”, etc. There are many ways to use this!
Speech Therapy by SOUND GROUPS. Articulation, Phonology, Montessori, Dinky Doodads, speech therapy
I will start incorporating this into my toddlers routine over Christmas break! For example, using “more”, “go”, and “up” to keep him engaged and learning while not in school.
Early Language Skill of the Week Handouts | Speech Therapy Parent Resource | Language Development Support | Speech Therapy Activities
My son loves looking at the pictures and trying to sound out and point to the corresponding picture.
Language: Phonetic Picture Matching Cards - Great For Bridging A Gap Between Words and Picture Recognition.
If you're new to speech or your toddler just received a speech diagnosis, this is a great place to start. I read this shortly after we found out my toddler had a delay.
A Parent's Guide to Speech Development • Nobles Speech Therapy LLC
This toy/resource has helped my son so much by being able to look at how your mouth moves when saying different words and sounds. We just started to implement this, and so far, it has been a great resource for us and my son's speech growth.
Hand2mind Talking Mirror My Sounds Phoneme Set: Preschool Language Skills Plastic Teaching Charts & Props, 25 Pieces
This is something I will be doing with my nieces until my son is older :) Flip different parts to form different sentences and see what phrases you come up with.
Junior Learning® Parts of Speech Flips - Flip Parts of Speech To Build A Sentence
I remember having something like this when I was younger, and this would be a great tool for any kid learning to read.
Hand2Mind Phonics Skill-Building Demonstration Pocket Chart: Kindergarten & Preschool Reading & Writing Aid
These rods are so cool and truly a neat thing to help kids with early literacy skills. I know this will be a hit in our house when my son gets a little older. These would be great to interpret early sentences.
Hand2Mind Reading Rods Sentence Construction: Educational Kits for Preschool Literacy Skills
Let's Read All About It
Let's READ all about it !! One of our favorite things we do to support our son's speech journey is reading him books to get him familiar with pictures, sounds, words, and more!
This is such a short and sweet book that my toddler actually enjoys, and thats a win in our house.
Short and Sweet Stories: An interactive book for speech and language, (Hardcover)
I love all the interactive and different stories that are provided.
Stirring Up Speech and Language Sprinkles of Speech: Stories for Children Aged 3-7, (Paperback)
We just bought this one for our son and can’t wait to start reading it! It includes 12 different books for ages 3 to 6!
Pete the Cat Phonics Box : Includes 12 Mini-books Featuring Short and Long Vowel Sounds (Paperback) - by James Dean
Let's be Thankful!!! A great resource to help kids begin thinking of what they are thankful for this time of year. TIP: Have your child point and name the objects, characters, and more to help with picture and word recognition. The dog says “woof”.
Let's Be Thankful (Paw Patrol) - by Tex Huntley (Board Book)
I just started reading this to my son every night. Hands down, an amazing book to read to any kid to remind them they are who they need to be. TIP: remind your kids of their strength and determination while reading along - soak in how far they have c...
The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be - by Joanna Gaines (Hardcover)