☃️❄️ It’s officially December! Our calendar this month is packed with quick daily activities to help little learners boost their oral language skills. If you’re looking for fun 🎄 holiday ideas to do with your kids, here are some to keep learning merry this Christmas! 🎁 #SLPTips

🎁 Turn-taking is the best gift 🎁 Whether you're rolling a ball back and forth, stacking blocks, or taking turns singing, these shared moments help children learn to ⌛️ wait, respond, and follow the natural flow of conversation 💬 Turns make talk happen! 🔄😉 #SLPTips

🎁 Talk aloud for your child! 🗣️💬 Self-talk (example): “I am pouring juice 🧃" and Parallel-talk (example): “You are stacking blocks 🧱". Hearing words with actions helps make them meaningful in the moment 🌟 and supports language growth during everyday routines 🌄 #SLPTips

🎁 Boost your child's communication with gentle sabotage! 😀 Make everyday moments meaningful; pause a favourite song, give a tiny piece of cookie 🍪, hand the "wrong" cup, or put a preferred toy/snack out of reach. Encourage requests, comments and questions naturally! 🌟#SLPTips

🎁 Repetition 🔁 is key! Saying the same words often helps children understand and remember language. Try "I see a ball. The ball is red." ⚽️ Each time they hear it, their vocabulary grows and talking becomes easier! 🗣️💡 #SLPTips

🎁 Open-Ended Questions ❓ Skip yes/no questions and ask ones that invite more! Instead of "Is the sky blue?", try asking "What do you see in the sky?". This encourages children to think, share ideas, and use more words 🧠💬✨ #SLPTips

🎁 Expectant Waiting ⏳ Pause after you speak and wait. That silence gives children time to think, process, and attempt communication, which helps build their confidence and supports language growth 🌱🗣️ Little pauses can make a big difference! ✨ #SLPTips

🎁 Joint attention 👀--when you and your child focus on the same thing--builds early communication. Following your child's gaze or pointing things out together helps them share moments 🤝, take turns 🔄, and connect words to the world around them 🌏. #SLPTips

🎁 Expansion repeats a child's phrase with correct grammar, while Extension adds extra information 💬. These techniques model richer language and support longer utterances - great for children using words/short phrases as they build vocabulary and sentence structure ✨🗣️ #SLPTips

📢 Ready to unwrap some language magic? 🎁 Our 12 Days of Unwrapping Oral Language returns Friday! Each day, we will reveal a simple tip or strategy you can use to support speech and language at home 🗣️✨ Don't miss out - come unwrap the fun with us! 🎄🌟

Keep hearing aids working their best! 🦻✨ Clean regularly, store dry, avoid heat/cold 🌡️, and make sure they are out of reach of little hands and paws 🐾👶 so they stay safe and last longer 👍 #SLPTips

AAC gives non-speaking and minimally speaking autistic children a real voice 🗣️ especially when it’s used all day, not just in therapy. Try picking one daily routine and modeling two words on their AAC system. Here are some of our core boards to help you out 💬✨ #SLPTips

Ever wonder how to teach social inferencing? 🤔📸 This resource uses real photos and sentence frames to help children with social pragmatic challenges tackle higher-order questions, perspective taking, and reasoning skills 💬🧠 A must-have for your toolkit 🧰 #SLPTips

This 🟩🟨🟥 CVC set from Tara West is a great tool for practicing segmenting, blending, and decoding with our early readers 🙌 Perfect for small group work or home practice to support phonemic awareness and early reading skills 📚 Check out her website for the full copy #SLPTips

👂 "My child can hear...so why use hearing aids?" Because hearing aids 🦻 don't just make sounds louder 🔊 they help make children's speech clearer. Access to all speech sounds (/s/, /f/, /k/ and more) supports stronger listening, learning and language development 🎶💬 #SLPTips

🌬️🍂 Bundle up for language fun this November! Our monthly calendar 🗓️ is full of simple ways to boost talking, listening, and learning at home. Let's make learning a-maize-ing! 🌽✨ #SLPTips #OralLanguage #NovemberFun

👻 Can your little ghouls and goblins follow these directions without getting tricked? Try this 🕸️ spook-tacular 🕸️ Halloween activity and put their spatial skills to the test! 🎃🍬 Have a Happy Halloween! 🦇💀 #SLPTips #FollowDirections

✨ You don't need special materials to build your child's language ✨ Everyday toys and items at home can spark so much learning. These examples from @spunkyspeechy show how play can build 🗣️ vocabulary ❓ answering questions 📍 prepositions 🎨 describing skills, 🔤 speech sounds

The Student Mental Health & Well-Being Champions have shared simple grounding techniques to help students and staff manage stress and stay present in challenging moments. 🌿 #MentalHealth #WellBeing #StudentSupport

📢 It's #DLDAwarenessDay! Did you know that about 2 in every 30 students 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 have Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) - a hidden condition that makes it hard for children to understand and/or use spoken language? Learn more at 👇 https://t.co/l9uA1rSHNz #DLDday #ThinkLanguage