Category: Communication

  • Let’s Cook Together

    Your Child Will Learn

    Food and cooking vocabulary and an introduction to cooking

    Here’s What to Do

    1. As you prepare a meal, talk with your child about what you’re cooking and how you’re preparing it.
    2. Invite your child to help
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  • Speak Up For Yourself

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to communicate their needs to others

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Talk about times when you want to use a strong, respectful voice:
      • When someone treats you in a mean or unsafe way
      • When someone treats
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  • The Solution Game

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to identify solutions to problems

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Tell your child you’re going to play “The Solution Game.”
    2. Describe some problems for your child. Here are some to try, or make up your own!
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  • What’s the Problem?

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to identify and describe a problem

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Tell your child you’re going to play “What’s the Problem?”
    2. Act out some problems. Make up your own ideas, or try these:
      • Put water in
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  • Baby Sign Language

    Your Child Will Learn

    To use simple sign language to communicate needs

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Think about 2-4 needs your child has on a daily basis.
    2. Practice teaching your child basic sign language for these needs and emotions by
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  • Animal Sounds

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to make different sounds of speech

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather some visual examples of animals; these visual examples can be animal toys, animal flashcards, a book with different pictures of animals, homemade drawings of
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  • Vehicle Sounds

    Your Child Will Learn

    To imitate changes in voice tone and volume by making vehicle sounds

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather some visual examples of vehicles like trains, cars, trucks, airplanes, or boats. These visual examples can be vehicle toys,
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  • Texture Time at the Playground

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use descriptive words to describe textures of objects

    Here’s What to Do

    1. While on a trip to the playground, find different textures to do this activity. Some examples: slide, monkey bars, rubber ground covering, wood chips,
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  • My Voice Playlist

    Your Child Will Learn

    To vary tone and volume when communicating in different contexts.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to think of a song, nursery rhyme, or story they know really well. Tell them you’re going to record
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  • Bath Time Story Time

    Your Child Will Learn

    A way to make bath time more fun 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Tell your child that tonight’s bath time is going to be a story time. Ask what character they’d like the story to be about.
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