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by Nancy Uttendorfer, MS, CCC-SLP
There are many ways to teach language to your child. Structured time with toys, activities and books are common ways to teach language. However, there are many opportunities to teach your child during everyday activities as well. Here are some examples:
-Taking a Walk. Be sure to walk at your child’s pace and stop for things that he wants to explore. Introduce vocabulary related to the things you see, such as leaves, trees, grass, flowers. Talk about the colors and how things feel.
-A Trip to the Grocery Store. Have your child participate in making a list of things to buy. Use pictures from ads in the paper or cut out logos or pictures from food containers and paste them on index cards. Re-use these from week to week. Your child can then use these cards to find the items as you walk up and down the aisles. If your child is able, let her take the items off the shelf and put them in the cart. Teach vocabulary related to the trip, such as food labels, shopping cart, push, cold, grocery store, etc.
-Washing Dishes- Use this activity to teach vocabulary like wet, dry, hot, cold, clean, dirty, bubbles, soap, towel, plate, bowl, fork, spoon, etc.
-Cooking- While cooking, talk about the steps to put the ingredients together. Draw pictures of the steps and ingredients and use these as a visual aid to help your child to see what’s next in the sequence. These visuals can be re-used each time you prepare the recipe. Your child can tell others how the food was made by reviewing the steps using the visual ai
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