Homework Ideas
Parents often wonder what they can do at home to help their child progress on their speech and language goals. We appreciate and encourage parent involvement outside of our speech sessions. It is necessary to have a partnership with parents to not only work on goals in our sessions but carry over the goals into other environments, like your home.
The type of activities that are recommended for "homework" depend on your child and on the type of services we are addressing in our sessions. General suggestions can be made to assist in this process. Here are some general suggestions for speech sound production interventions.
The type of activities that are recommended for "homework" depend on your child and on the type of services we are addressing in our sessions. General suggestions can be made to assist in this process. Here are some general suggestions for speech sound production interventions.
Sound Production Homework
In general you can follow these beginning steps for practice at home.
1. First work on the placement of the sound you are working on. Where is your tongue when you produce the sound? What are your lips doing? Is there air coming out of your mouth when you produce the sound? All of these features are important to recognize when you make each sound. Look in the mirror and watch a person in your family make the production. Now you imitate the same sound.
2. Next coordinate the sound with vowels before and after the speech sound you are practicing.
3. Now separate the sound from the rest of a CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) word. For example if the word is boot and you are working on the /b/ sound, separate the /b/ from the rest of the word. It should sound like /buh + oot/.
4. Slowly start blending this sound with the rest of the word until you are able to produce the sound with the whole word in its entirety.
In general you can follow these beginning steps for practice at home.
1. First work on the placement of the sound you are working on. Where is your tongue when you produce the sound? What are your lips doing? Is there air coming out of your mouth when you produce the sound? All of these features are important to recognize when you make each sound. Look in the mirror and watch a person in your family make the production. Now you imitate the same sound.
2. Next coordinate the sound with vowels before and after the speech sound you are practicing.
3. Now separate the sound from the rest of a CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) word. For example if the word is boot and you are working on the /b/ sound, separate the /b/ from the rest of the word. It should sound like /buh + oot/.
4. Slowly start blending this sound with the rest of the word until you are able to produce the sound with the whole word in its entirety.
