Although every child grows and develops at his or her own pace toddler speech development tends to follow a fairly predictable path.
Speech therapy for 2 year old videos.
By 2 years of age a stranger should be able to understand your child s speech about 50 of the time.
If your child shows signs of cas at age 3 or 4 it s important to seek professional help from a speech language pathologist right away.
These vowels and consonants have a great response from children.
Speech delay can be an early sign of other developmental issues.
In contrast older children can participate in longer sessions.
Children younger than 3 are rarely diagnosed with cas but if you re at all concerned about your 2 year old it s a good idea to consult a speech language pathologist.
I wanted to give you 10 speech therapy ideas to do at home because you as the parent are your child s best teacher.
Use simple sounds like da and ma or ba and aa or ooh to babies even when they are newborn.
My kids were especially motivated by sound puzzles like these from melissa doug.
Typically children that are 4 years old and younger benefit from shorter but more frequent therapy sessions.
If you re able to understand only a few or none of your 2 year old s words talk to your child s doctor about scheduling an evaluation.
That s right your child s favorite wooden puzzles can be used for toddler speech therapy.
We all have puzzles at home.
Has an unusual tone of voice such as raspy or nasal sounding also call the doctor if your child s speech is harder to understand than expected for their age.
Is not using a large variety of different consonants does not point to some body parts when named eg nose hair.
To start out take all the pieces out of the puzzle and give your child the empty puzzle board.
A 2 year old may need to see a speech pathologist if he she.
These simple speech therapy activities help your child to talk.
The best 13 speech therapy activities for toddlers use simple sounds.
Can t follow simple directions.
I am a play therapist not an slp so i work with many speech delayed children in conjunction with their speech language pathologist birth age 3 and these activities work great with them in the home in between therapy sessions.