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  with therapy for children and adults

Child Development

Speech Therapy

How Can I Help My Child Speak More Clearly?

  • Being a good speech model for your child. Don't use baby talk.
  • Pronounce words clearly, slowly and correctly for your child to hear and imitate.
  • Trying to look at your child when you both are talking.
  • Letting the child watch your face, lips, and tongue as you form sounds and words, prolonging the speech sound the child has difficult saying: For example, "Where is your sssock?"
  • Repeating new words and sounds over and over. Use them often in your conversation with the child.
  • Making a scrapbook with the child. Cut out and paste pictures of objects the child learns to say or recognize.
  • Praising the child when sounds are correct, especially if the sounds were previously difficult for the child.

 

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