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Make a sound and see if you’re child will copy you, start to take turns. This is a good skill for communication.

Rhyme Of The Month

Nursery Rhymes are important for language acquisition and help with speech development. They help children develop auditory skills such as discriminating between sounds and developing the ear for the music of words.

Pat a cake pat a cake bakers man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Pat it and prick it and mark it with a B
Put it in the oven for baby and me

When your child says the wrong sound don’t put pressure on them.

A child’s speech sound development is gradual and some children can develop sounds at different times to other children.

Children will tend to say or produce a speech sound when they are developmental ready – it’s not laziness when they’re not producing a particular sound ; and just because they can copy a sound or say it on its own, does not mean they’ll be able to use it in words or sentences (yet ! )  if your child is making errors in their speech eg if you say ‘tat’ instead of ‘cat’, the best thing to do is model the way of saying it in a really positive way eg That’s right a cat, really emphasising the correct sound.

Don’t correct them and try and make them repeat it after you this could affect their confidence and put them off talking.

Speech sounds continue to develop up to the age of 7.

It’s all about  Blowing Bubbles everyone loves bubbles and while having fun you will be strengthening your tongue and exercising the lips to help with speech sounds.

Bubble Mix Recipe 

• 2 cups washing up liquid
• 1tsp of cooking oil
• 1 cup of water

Making The Mix

mix the washing up liquid with the water and add the cooking oil it makes the bubble mix stronger our if you don’t want to use bubbles you could try – cotton wool or feathers across a table small pieces of hankie in the air bubbles from the bath, using the palm of your hand, try whistling.

Strengthen abdominal muscles can increase sentence length, strengthening the tongue correctly for (K,G) and ng sounds that are produced at the back of the mouth.

Lip rounding for sounds (W, OO) and ‘O’ when your child is blowing if the shape of the lips is round, great if they are more on the flat side try squeezing their cheeks to get their lips in the right position.

Speech Sounds – When your child requests more bubbles with a sign or gesture try modelling the sound (m) more, (b) bubbles or (p)for pop.

Speech sound development webinar for families in East Ayrshire.

please see Septembers Top Tip