Other Ways to Help:

Speech Sounds:

• Help speech-sound articulation at home:

  • Use gentle reminders of correction when speaking with your child. Attempt to only model the sound that is currently being practiced in speech.

  • Try to revise what your child has mispronounced by repeating it using the correct production of the targeted sound. Emphasize the mispronounced sound. For example, the child said, “I like the tuck.” Parent can say, “I like the duck too.”

  • Try to practice targeted sounds at home for 5-10 minutes a day. 

  • Read to your child and when your child’s sound is brought up in the story be sure to emphasize it. If your child is a reader, encourage them to seek out their target sound in the book as well.

  • Attempt to congratulate and emphasize when you hear correct production of your child’s articulation targets. For example, “Wow! I just heard you make a great /K/ sound- way to go!”

  • Use positive and descriptive words when trying to correct such as, “Great try, but this time when we try to say the /TH/ sound, let’s put our tongue through our front teeth.”

Language:

• 25 speech and language strategies to use at home  

• Activities to encourage speech and language by age

• Activities to do in the car

• Answering comprehension questions at home

Stuttering:

• Helpful Websites: National Stuttering Association,  The Stuttering Foundation

• Stuttering Facts

• 7 Tips for Talking with Your Child.

• 6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters.

• Myths about Stuttering