
Tag Archives: language development


Help your child with language: the power of the choice

Help your child with language: playing with blocks

Enhance Speech and Language with baking
Parents are always looking for ways to incorporate speech and language activities at home. Whether it is to stimulate a typically developing child’s vocabulary and language, or to help a speech or language delayed child; baking is great and fun way to work on speech and language. The first and most important rule before you start, is you have to

Sound disorder: my child makes sounds with the back of the mouth
What Is Backing? Backing disorder is a communication phenomenon in which speech sounds that should be made at the front of the mouth are made at the back of the mouth instead. Such a disorder might have physiological basis or might simply be specific to the individual. Speech therapy and exercises can help correct or lessen the impact of a

Bilingualism: Facts and mistakes

Speech Development in Bilingual Children
The Different Types of bilingualism There are two ways children become bilingual: Simultaneous and Successive. Simultaneous language acquisition is when a child is exposed to 2 languages from birth in natural situations. This often happens when both parents speak two languages to a child or each parent speaks a different language to the child (or caregivers). These children tend to

How to raise bilingual kids
Define your goals for your children’s language skills What is your expectation about how well your bilingual kids should be able to speak the language? There is a big difference in whether you would want them to be able to communicate in everyday situations or whether your goal is for them to be able to read and write and also

Learning to talk: playing with the farm
