If you have a hard time understanding what your preschooler is trying to tell you sometimes, there are ways you can help him improve his speaking skills. Here are a few suggestions:
• Be a good listener. Don’t just hear what your child is saying, get involved in his conversation. Ask him questions and encourage your child to talk. Practice makes perfect!
• Talk to your child a lot. Listening to conversations also allows your child the opportunity to improve his speech as he is hearing the correct way to say words.
• Use a recorder so your child can listen to himself telling a story or singing a song.
• Use a picture book and have your child fill in the story. This not only builds on your child speaking skill, but it also allows their imagination to run wild.
• When you go for a walk, take along a container to collect things you find on the journey such as pretty rocks, bird feathers, or leaves. After you get home, have your child use the items as show and tell for the family, describing each item and where he found it.
• Be a good listener. Don’t just hear what your child is saying, get involved in his conversation. Ask him questions and encourage your child to talk. Practice makes perfect!
• Talk to your child a lot. Listening to conversations also allows your child the opportunity to improve his speech as he is hearing the correct way to say words.
• Use a recorder so your child can listen to himself telling a story or singing a song.
• Use a picture book and have your child fill in the story. This not only builds on your child speaking skill, but it also allows their imagination to run wild.
• When you go for a walk, take along a container to collect things you find on the journey such as pretty rocks, bird feathers, or leaves. After you get home, have your child use the items as show and tell for the family, describing each item and where he found it.