Today’s focus from the NHS Speech and Language Facebook page is focussing on Listening and Talking. Listening and attention skills are one of the key parts of our overall Literacy and Language areas of CfE. They are important for your child to help with their social skills, understanding of language, following instructions, learning to communicate, developing speech sounds and all areas of their learning.
The website below shares some great ideas to help support your child with listening and talking and is definitely worth a look.
Please see below ideas suggestions for you to use with your child to help support them with their speech sounds:
- Play musical bumps or statues. These are also examples of games we play in Nursery and School.
- Get your child to spot the mistake. You could use their favourite song or nursery Rhyme and make a deliberate mistake. See can your child recognise the mistake you have made or the word you have left out.
- Play games where your child must wait for you to say go before they take part. An example is building a tower of bricks where your child cannot knock it down until you say Go!
- Use a noisy toy and get your child to follow the noise by hiding the toy or object.
As always have a go and try them out. If you have any other ideas that you use at home please share these also.
Have a great day everyone,
Mrs Docherty
