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Early Intervention
Learning to Read
Learning to Write
Learning Math
Homework
School Choices
Help in School
Your Child's School Rights
After High School
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How You Can Help Your Child's Speech Therapist
Read this section to find out how you can help your child's SLP
What can you do to help the speech therapist?
Because you spend the most time with your child, you can be her best teacher. The most important thing
to do is to always communicate with her. You should also do this:
- Ask the SLP to show you things you can do to teach her speech and language.
- Practice the things at home everyday that the SLP does with your child in school.
- Keep a book or binder at home with all the things she does in her speech therapy class.
- Play games that help her to learn new language skills.
What do other parents and teachers have to say about this?
"One of the ways we'd taught him to enunciate is to play rhyming games. It's
become a family tradition/game to intentionally "mis hear" things that are said
and make a nonsense reply using a rhyme to the word that we'd supposedly
"mis heard." We change lyrics to popular songs ... anything that will have him
being careful and clear with his pronunciation and to get him thinking about
using words."
— Jill, parent
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"What can parents do? When they find a way to communicate, read, read, read,
read, read, read. Read to your child and take them to the library and get them to love books."
— Judy, Speech and Language Pathologist
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Next: The Goals and Benefits of Speech Therapy
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