Welcome summer! It was been another wonderful year at Ford Elementary. I encourage you to keep practicing good speech and language skills with your child throughout the summer. Finding ways to work practice time into activities you already do will help it become automatic. Great times for practicing are: waiting in line, driving in the car, when reading, during toothbrushing routine - you are already in front of a mirror! Utilize technology! Try using your cell phone or computer webcam to video your child practicing. Watch it back and have them give themself a rating of good, close, or needs work.
Click here for a site where you can get materials for various speech sounds. http://www.speakingofspeech.com/Articulation_Materials.html
Need to work on retelling or story comprehension? Click here Download ScalableIconsRev for symbols to help your child recall story parts (character, setting, kick-off, feelings, plan, consequence, resolution) or here View this photo to get a page of bookmarks. This link http://www.4gaslps.com/Stories_Online_page.html will give you many websites with online stories.
Below are some more ideas for how to practice speech or language skills with your child.
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Before you know it we will be back at school hard a work. Until then treasure every extra moment you have to spend with your child!