If you've had a kid in speech..

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how much do/did you work at home with them?  H has once a week speech and I'm trying to work with him at home a few times a week but idk if I'm doing enough.
So how often/long did you work with them?
Did you find any good TV shows, apps, or flash cards that helped?

His biggest issue appears to be taking longer than normal to develop the ability to say a new word, and especially chopping off the end of words (bird is b, mop is mo, eat is e).

[fadedscars]

Leia now does her speech therapy at school.

Madelyn goes twice a week for 30 minutes. Some times she gets a homework sheet to do. We really only work on it 15-20 minutes a day cause she has the attention span of a gnat.

[fadedscars]

Maddie does love doing flash cards! We get different ones from dollar tree. Target at one time had different flashcards for animals, food, dinosaurs, and stuff like that.

[fusion]

I loved the baby babble videos and so did all of my kids.

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I loved the baby babble videos and so did all of my kids.

[sandj82110]

We just modelled what we were learning constantly, I didn't take a specific time to work on skills, just incorporated it into our every day life. For that I would over enunciate the word he's saying wrong, once or twice at the time it comes up, try to get him to say it with me and move on the moment he seems annoyed or frustrated.

With us we had a really hard time with getting him to speak in the first person, and while this is normal it was something they were really focused on. We had to make a really conscious effort to also use "l" vs "mommy." We found he would revert very quickly when H's parents would visit because they exclusively speak in the third person when around the kids (and still do at 3.5 and 5.5 🙄) It would take me a month to get back to where we were after a week long visit.

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Oct 26, 2017 15:03:58 GMT -5 fadedscars said:

Maddie does love doing flash cards! We get different ones from dollar tree. Target at one time had different flashcards for animals, food, dinosaurs, and stuff like that.

Oh good idea to look at Dollar tree!  I looked at our Target and couldn't find any, I remember I used to see them there, but I'll try dollar tree.

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Oct 26, 2017 19:21:04 GMT -5 sandj82110 said:

We just modelled what we were learning constantly, I didn't take a specific time to work on skills, just incorporated it into our every day life. For that I would over enunciate the word he's saying wrong, once or twice at the time it comes up, try to get him to say it with me and move on the moment he seems annoyed or frustrated.

With us we had a really hard time with getting him to speak in the first person, and while this is normal it was something they were really focused on. We had to make a really conscious effort to also use "l" vs "mommy." We found he would revert very quickly when H's parents would visit because they exclusively speak in the third person when around the kids (and still do at 3.5 and 5.5 🙄) It would take me a month to get back to where we were after a week long visit.

That's a good idea to say it when he says them wrong right afterwards during the day.  He gets super frustrated when I try to get him to work on words, I think because he knows he's saying them wrong and it seems harder for him to speak in general than it ever did for A, but maybe if I just repeat it correctly after him it'll help.  

Lol at the ILs only speaking only in third person, it'll only be a bit longer until one of your kids calls them out for speaking that way lol

[kkfeb04]

This is different for me since the kids are in private and public speech. With private speech, I take the items they are working on and use it at home, in the car, etc. If they aren't using tall tongue for l sounds, I correct it. I remind them to use their tall tongue. We do a lot of reminders. It's just our everyday routine. If they are working on pronouns he/she, we make it a game at the store.

[DesertMoon]

Vivienne did 8 sessions when she was just shy of 2. She was non verbal them and just grunted. The only work I did at home was speaking clearly so she could see my mouth at her level and trying to get her to copy and naming things constantly. She was so little. Good luck.

[blane12]

I never ‘drilled’ at home and most of his ST was play based anyway. Prompt therapy really focused on words that were most useful and important to him like ‘truck, car, bus, out, etc’ whereas the preschool therapist worked on words that didn’t mean anything like ‘peacock’ or something. Obviously he was much more interested in learning the words that really meant something to him. He was nonverbal until after 3, so he was desperate to communicate.

Even now, he will try to self correct if he isn’t saying it right, or ask me to say it again so he can try again.

Really, I’d just make sure you are making him speak for what he wants, and try to use a lot of words with him like if he says ‘milk’ I would say ‘you want milk? Say momma milk please’ before I’d get it. Even if it wasn’t right, at least he was trying. As he made more progress, his SLP would send a little ‘homework’ home to work on words and sounds.

[lauranicole91]

I didn’t sit down and do home speech session with them. We just made sure to have them use words in day to day life to get what they wanted (to a certain extent, only words we know they were working on/knew). And also that we narrated life a little more to introduce more vocabulary to them constantly.