05/21/2025
Happy Better Speech & Hearing Month!! We will be posting tips for helping your little one build his/her speech and language skills while having fun during the month of MAY!!
Strong speech and language skills help prepare children for kindergarten and get them ready for reading and writing. Parents and caregivers can help build their child’s speech and language skills with some simple activities at home. Below 👇 are key communication skills for children ages 3–5, along with suggestions for how you can help your child develop these skills.
Describing Emotions:
Help children to express their own feelings and to talk about how others might be feeling. Some ideas include the following:
Host an arts-and-crafts show for family members or neighbors, and display your child’s creations. Use household items (e.g., coffee filters, paper towel rolls, or Q-Tips®) or items from outdoors (e.g., sticks, leaves, rocks) to create the crafts. Ask your child to describe their art, why they chose their subject, and how it makes them feel.
Show your child photos of family gatherings or events, and talk about the people in the pictures. Who is who, what are they doing, and how is everyone feeling? How can they tell? Talk about how it feels when you are with friends. What makes a good friend?
Use dolls, or make puppets out of household materials. Put on a show. Use funny voices, and talk about the characters—who they are, what they like or want, and how they feel. **check out a few pics from the last day of speech therapy for May this school year!! Sessions resume 1st week of June!!! ***