Articles for tag: Language Development, Preschool Activities

Karla News

5 Free Preschool Activities for Fall

Science: Float or Sink? This is a great free preschool activity to get little brains thinking, does it float or sink? They will create a hypothesis and then test their hypothesis. When the children create their hypothesis they will be using observation skills. Needed supplies for ‘Float or Sink’: * A large container that can ...

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Getting Your Toddler to Talk

As a parent to a growing toddler, I have often wondered if there is anything I should be doing to encourage my little girl’s language development. I know there are a lot of parents out there like me and this article will provide them with some great information on how they can get their toddler ...

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Easy Language Development Strategies

Developing children are sponges when it comes to language, but sometimes, some take longer than others or require a push to start talking. There are strategies that every parent or speech-language therapist can utilize for the early intervention of language development. They are most effective when implemented on a daily basis. Talk a lot and ...

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Ten Tips for Keeping Your Special Needs Toddler Active During Winter

Keeping children active during the long winter months is important to their health, but it’s especially critical to the healthy development of special needs children, particularly those with brain injuries. Our son, Evan, now 16 months old, suffered a stroke in utero, resulting in right side hemiparesis and cerebral palsy. Regular activity, both physical and ...

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The Importance of Speech and Language Development at Birth

Child growth and development is most profound in the first few years of life. It is during the first years of life that children learn to talk through the acquisition of pronunciations first, then vocabulary which leads to sentence structure and then on to grammatical connections in language to form reading an writing. With proper ...