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Below are toys that we recommend and commonly use during our therapy sessions
to promote speech and langage.
Stage Descriptions
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| Stage 1 |
Child makes little or no speech sounds. |
| Stage 2 |
Child is beginning to babble and make some sounds. |
| Stage 3 |
Child babbles and says up to 20 words. |
| Stage 4 |
Child babbles and says up to 50 words. |
| Stage 5 |
Child uses around 100 words and is beginning to use 2-word combinations. |
| Stage 6 |
Child uses around 300 words and is using 2-3 word combinations. |
| Stage 7 |
Child uses 500+ words and says 4+ word combinations. |
| Stage 8 |
Child communicates well using sentences. Child could benefit from activities
that focus on listening comprehension and verbal expression. |
Stage 1
Child makes little or no speech sounds.
Be sure to check out Parent Resources and
Oral Motor Products too.
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Baby's First Toys
Concepts: Oral motor coordination for speech and eating, sensory.
Our Suggestions: These play toys and teething rings come in great
textures and colors.Initially your child’s eyes will be drawn to the bright
colors and then eventually these toys with texture are great for little hands
and mouths to explore! Play with these toys during tummy time, in the high
chair while you are preparing a meal, and keep some in the diaper bag!
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Baby Babble Video™
Concepts: Sounds, words, oral motor coordination, imitation, play
skills, simple sign language.
Our Suggestions: Sit with your child as you watch this video. Encourage
your child to imitate the video. Take turns with your child repeating the
sounds and words. Watch repeatedly so that your child can predict which sounds
and words are coming next.
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Lamaze Clutch Tube
Concepts: Oral motor coordination, object permanence, sensory.
Our Suggestions: This toy is full of fun play activities for baby
including peek-a-boo flaps, clinking rings and jingling chimes. This colorful
soft cube rattle has fun textures to touch and chew. The bright colors and
contrasting patterns stimulate baby's vision. Each handle is a different shape,
texture and color.
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Who Loves Baby? Photo Book
Concepts: Naming and recognizing family members
Our Suggestions: Put pictures of your child and various family members
in this book. Ask your child to point to “Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, Papa etc.” Ask
your child to name who is on each page.
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Play Gym
Concepts: Listening, Imitation, Sensory.
Our Suggestions: Helps to stimulate baby with a plush shaped star with
lights. Press the center of the star and listen to classical music from
Beethoven and Bach as you watch the lights dance to the music. The star can be
removed and used on toy bars and cribs. Other toys include plush characters
that crinkle, rattle and squeak, a soft book with animal pictures and a mirror
for baby to see themselves.
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Tiny Love Trio
Concepts: Oral motor coordination for eating and speech, fine motor
coordination.
Our Suggestions: Baby will delight in grasping, teething, rattling,
pulling and more with this trio of captivating toys. Great toys to hang on bar
of car seat as well as stroller.
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Whoozit Zig Zaggles
Concepts: Oral motor coordination, sensory.
Our Suggestions: Textured rings and teethers are attached to the toy's
main body. It stimulates cause-and-effect play and gross motor development.
Play with this during tummy time, in the high chair while you are preparing a
meal, and take it along in the diaper bag!
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Mirror
Concepts: Oral motor coordination, imitation.
Our Suggestions: Sit with your child in front of the mirror. Have your
child try and imitate a variety of “funny faces” in the mirror. For example,
give a kiss, smack your lips, stick your tongue out like a snake (pointy), try
and touch your nose with your tongue, lick your lips, move your tongue from
corner to corner of your mouth, click your tongue etc. All of these help with
oral-motor control, strength and movement for eating and speech sound
production.
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Large Wooden Farm Jumbo Puzzle
Concepts: Animals, Animal Sounds, Choosing
Our Suggestions: Help your child match the puzzle piece to the spot.
Encourage your child to look for certain puzzle pieces- ex. Find the cow or
hold up two pieces and say ‘Pick the Cow”. Practice naming the animals and
saying what the animal says.
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Oral Motor
Whistle Set
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Whistles
Concepts: Oral motor coordination.
Our Suggestions: Have your child blow a variety of whistles. These will
help with oral-motor control, strength and movement as well as increasing
breath support for eating and speech.
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Bubbles
Concepts: Oral motor coordination, speech.
Our Suggestions: Blow bubbles, Have your child ask for “more”,
“bubbles”, “more bubbles”, “mine”, “my turn” etc. If your child cannot say the
entire word, accept an approximation such as “mo” for “more” or “ba” for
“bubbles”. Have your child try and blow the bubbles.
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First Words
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Sign Language Cards: First Words
Concepts: Vocabulary.
Our Suggestions: Parents can use these cards to teach their child sign
language so that they can communication before they talk verbally.
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Animals
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Sign Language Cards: Animals
Concepts: Vocabulary.
Our Suggestions: Parents can use these cards to teach their child sign
language so that they can communication before they talk verbally.
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Melissa and Doug Farm Fuzzy
Concepts: Animals, Animal Sounds, Adjectives (furry, soft, fuzzy etc.)
Our Suggestions: Practice saying the animals and what they say. Talk
about how each piece feels as your child puts it in the spot.
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Tiger Flashlight
Concepts: Oral motor coordination.
Our Suggestions: Have your child open mouth and say "ahhh". Allow your
child to look in your mouth. Work on vocabulary such as tongue, teeth, lips,
throat.
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Around the House
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Sign Language Cards: House
Concepts: Vocabulary.
Our Suggestions: Parents can use these cards to teach their child sign
language so that they can communication before they talk verbally.
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Family Life
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Sign Language Cards: Family Life
Concepts: Vocabulary.
Our Suggestions: Parents can use these cards to teach their child sign
language so that they can communication before they talk verbally.
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Stage 2
Child is beginning to babble and make some speech sounds.
Be sure to check out Sign Language and
Flash Cards too.
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Baby Farm Friends Bowling
Concepts: Animals, Animal sounds, Vocab (up, down, ball, roll, again)
Our Suggestions: Have all the animal pins in a bag. Have your child
label each animal as you pull it out of the bag and say what the animal says.
Have your child tell you to put the pins “up”. Have your child ask for the
ball. Label when your child rolls the ball and the pins fall down. Encourage
“again”.
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Baby! Talk!
Concepts: First words and First Concepts.
Our Suggestions: A wonderful book for first words. Practice concepts
like Uh-oh and Peek-a-boo in a way your child will love.
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Touch & Feel
Baby Animals
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Baby Animals: Touch & Feel Cards
Concepts: Animal sounds, sensory.
Our Suggestions: Parents can use these cards to teach their child
receptively and expressively how to identify the early vocabulary words
pictured.
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Mirror
Concepts: Oral motor coordination, imitation.
Our Suggestions: Sit with your child in front of the mirror. Have your
child try and imitate a variety of “funny faces” in the mirror. For example,
give a kiss, smack your lips, stick your tongue out like a snake (pointy), try
and touch your nose with your tongue, lick your lips, move your tongue from
corner to corner of your mouth, click your tongue etc. All of these help with
oral-motor control, strength and movement for eating and speech sound
production.
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First Words Magnetic Book
Concepts: Vocabulary, fine motor coordination.
Our Suggestions: Label each picture as your child picks them up and puts
it in the book. Encourage your child to say the names as well!
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Baby's First Blocks
Concepts: Colors, shapes, sorting, fine motor coordination,
cause/effect.
Our Suggestions: Label each color and/or shape as your child picks them
up and puts it in the bucket. Encourage your child to put them in and then dump
them out and do it all over again!
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Peek A Blocks: Barn Yard Friends
Concepts: Animal names/sounds, sensory, fine motor coordination.
Our Suggestions: Label each animal and make the sound it says as your
child picks up each block. Stack the blocks in a tower and knock it over and do
it again!
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Baby Babble Video™
Concepts: Sounds, words, oral motor coordination, imitation, play
skills, simple sign language.
Our Suggestions: Sit with your child as you watch this video. Encourage
your child to imitate the video. Take turns with your child repeating the
sounds and words. Watch repeatedly so that your child can predict which sounds
and words are coming next.
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Fridge Magnetic Animal Sounds Set
Concepts: Animals/sounds recognition, fine motor coordination.
Our Suggestions: This toy goes on your refrigerator and the magic reader
recognizes which animal was placed inside. Your child will hear the animal
sound and then a song. Great toy for first words and if you are trying to make
dinner!
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Leap Start Learning Table
Concepts: Gross & Fine Motor Coordination, speech, colors, numbers,
letters.
Our Suggestions: Label what your child is pressing on the table. As your
child grows, see if they can label items before they press them.
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Hug and Learn Baby Tad
Concepts: Speech, shapes, colors and fine motor coordination.
Our Suggestions: Label what your child is pressing on Tad (tadpole). As
your child grows, see if they can label items before they press them.
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Little Touch Leap Pad
Concepts: ABC's, language, words, shapes, colors, numbers.
Our Suggestions: For younger children, you will need to press the “Go”
on each page and show your child how to press the various pictures for sounds.
Talk about what you are seeing and hearing. See if your child can imitate some
of the animal and environmental sounds as well as label the pictures on each
page.
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Corn Popper
Concepts: Gross motor coordination (walking), speech.
Our Suggestions: Fun toy to encourage children to try the “pop” sounds
like the toy as they run around!
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Microphone with Tape Player
Concepts: Babbling, imitating, singing, intonation and turn taking.
Our Suggestions: Make sounds and words into the microphone and hold it
to your child's mouth and let them know if is their turn. Imitate the sounds
and words your child says, too.
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Learning Drum
Concepts: First sounds: "Ba, Da, Duh, Boom"; rhythm.
Our Suggestions: Children love to use the drum as they make sounds. This
drum counts aloud and says the alphabet as your tap on it. Encourage your child
to say different sounds as he/she beats the drum (ie. ba, duh, ta). This drum
is a very motivational for children learning to babble and imitate sounds.
Children who appear tentative to talk always seem to drop their inhibitions
when we get the drum out during therapy.
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Time To Sing Music CD
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Time to Sing Music CD
Concepts: Music, phonation, verbalizations.
Our Suggestions: A great CD! The CD contains favorite songs played
slowly so that children can sing along. Choose one simple word from each song
and encourage your child to sing only that word each time it is heard
throughout the song. Words that are repeated a lot are best. Gradually
encourage your child to "add" more words.
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Time To Sing 2 Music CD
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Time to Sing 2 Music CD
Concepts: Music, phonation, verbalizations.
Our Suggestions: A great CD! The CD contains favorite songs played
slowly so that children can sing along. Choose one simple word from each song
and encourage your child to sing only that word each time it is heard
throughout the song. Words that are repeated a lot are best. Gradually
encourage your child to "add" more words.
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Stage 3
Child babbles and says up to 20 words.
Be sure to check out Parent Resources and
Sign Language too.
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Lil' Movers Lead Vehicle – Bus
Concepts: Song “Wheels on the Bus”, Vocab (bus, yellow, go, on, off,
slow, fast, open, shut)
Our Suggestions: Sing “Wheels on the Bus” while you and your child play
with the bus. Put the people on the bus and then take them off. Label what the
people and bus are doing.
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Touch & Feel
First Words
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First Words: Touch & Feel Cards
Concepts: First words, sensory.
Our Suggestions: Parents can use these cards to teach their child
receptively and expressively how to identify the early vocabulary words
pictured.
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Little People House
Concepts: Pretend play, following directions, speech
Our Suggestions: Pretend play is important for the process of language
acquisition. It is not structured or goal-oriented and is fun. Parents can
“show by example” on how to play. While your child is playing, label all the
people “baby”, “mommy”, “daddy”. Talk about what they are doing ie.“Daddy is in
bed” “Mommy is eating” “Baby is taking a bath.” Your child can learn to follow
simple directions such as “Put baby in the bed.”
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Little People Car Garage
Concepts: Pretend play, following directions, speech
Our Suggestions: Pretend play is important for the process of language
acquisition. It is not structured or goal-oriented and is fun. Parents can
“show by example” on how to play. Have your child imitate “car sounds” and the
telephone ringing.Talk about what the car is doing i.e.“The car is going down”,
“The car needs a wash”, “He is on the phone” , “Ready, Set, Go!” Your child can
learn to follow simple directions such as “Push the car down the ramp.”
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Baby Babble Video™
Concepts: Sounds, words, oral motor coordination, imitation, play
skills, simple sign language.
Our Suggestions: Sit with your child as you watch this video. Encourage
your child to imitate the video. Take turns with your child repeating the
sounds and words. Watch repeatedly so that your child can predict which sounds
and words are coming next.
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Baby Doll
Concepts: First Words: "Baby, mmmmm, eat, drink, shhh (sleeping)";
Pretend play.
Our Suggestions: Pretend play is important for the process of language
acquisition. It is not structured or goal-oriented and is fun. Parents can
“show by example” on how to play. While playing with your child, encourage your
child to “feed” the baby with a bottle or a spoon. Have your child put the baby
to “sleep”. Pick up the baby as if it is “crying”.
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Oreo Matchin' Middles
Concepts: First Words: "In, Out, Oh-oh, Boom"; Turn-taking.
Our Suggestions: There are a variety of ways to play from simply
emptying the jar and putting the pieces back (attention span and turn-taking),
to matching the shapes, or using it as a memory game. The game is very durable
and lots of fun. Practice "my turn", "your turn" as well as naming the shapes.
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Little People Animal Sounds Farm
Concepts: Animal sounds: "Baa, Moo, Peep, etc"; pretend play, following
directions.
Our Suggestions: Pretend play is important for the process of language
acquisition. It is not structured or goal-oriented and is fun. Parents can
“show by example” on how to play. While playing with your child, encourage your
child make animal sounds. Have your child pretend the sheep is grazing on grass
or taking a nap. This toy has fun music and animal sounds that encourage
your child to talk along. Your child can learn to follow
directions as you tell him/her to "put the sheep next to the
chicken", or "Give me the horse."
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Stage 4
Child babbles and says up to 50 words.
Be sure to check out Language Books and
Toys too.
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Barnyard Bingo
Concepts: Animal names/sounds, turn-taking.
Our Suggestions: Play this game with your child. Talk about the
different colors (red, yellow, blue, red), animals (cow, sheep, pig, chicken),
and the sounds they make. This is a great first game to teach basic turn-taking
skills. Encourage your child to say "my turn" and "open" and "in."
Have a game idea? Email it to us!
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Mr. Potato Head
Concepts: Receptive language, espressive language, body parts.
Our Suggestions: Ask your child to point to their body part while they
put the part on the potato. You can also have your child name each body part as
they put it on. Lay all of the body parts out and ask the child, "Can you find
the ...?"
Have a game idea? Email it to us!
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Playdoh Set
Concepts: Vocabulary, colors, requesting wants, fine motor.
Our Suggestions: This one is a favorite! Children love this -- just make
certain your child is not interested in eating the doh! Have your child request
items, make choices, and much more. Even the most quiet children seem to become
more vocal when the playdoh comes out!
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Big Red Barn
Concepts: Animal names/sounds, vocabulary.
Our Suggestions: Encourage your child to repeat sounds and words. Praise
“good talking”. ex. The horses stomped in the hay. The bats flew away.
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Little People Zoo
Concepts: Speech, animal names/sounds, alphabet.
Our Suggestions: In the beginning, you will have to help your child
place the animals on their letter, but children have fun pressing the animal
down to hear the letter/sound it makes. See if your child can imitate the
sounds. Later on, you can ask your child “What letter sound does lion start
with?” or “What animal starts with a P?”
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DVD $19.99
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Baby Babble Video™
Concepts: Sounds, words, oral motor coordination, imitation, play
skills, simple sign language.
Our Suggestions: Sit with your child as you watch this video. Encourage
your child to imitate the video. Take turns with your child repeating the
sounds and words. Watch repeatedly so that your child can predict which sounds
and words are coming next.
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Fridge Phonics Magnetic Letter set
Concepts: Alphabet/letter recognition, fine motor coordination.
Our Suggestions: This toy goes on your refrigerator and the magic reader
recognizes which letter was placed inside. Your child will hear the letter and
then a song.This toy also plays the “alphabet song.” Great toy if you are
trying to make dinner!
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Basic Doodle Pro
Concepts: Fine Motor Coordination, turn taking, cause/effect, speech,
letter/number recognition.
Our Suggestions: Kids can draw, practice writing letters and numbers, or
play games on the screen and then just erase and start again. Take this toy in
the car, airplane, doctor’s office etc.! Take turns drawing animals, household
objects, numbers or letters. Label them or have your child label them. Show
your child how to erase and then see if they can do it next time.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? & Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do
You Hear?
Concepts: Question structure, child prediction, simple rhyming, colors.
Our Suggestions: Read these books to your child and have your child
answer the “What” questions. See if your child can ask you the questions. These
are great stories for child prediction because of their sing-songy rhythm,
repetition, and rhyming. To practice child prediction, have your child fill in
the missing word: "Brown bear, brown bear, what do you ___?" Add simple
gestures for the words "you, see, I, me" so that your child can participate
even if they can't yet speak.
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Stage 5
Child uses around 100 words and is beginning to use 2-word combinations.
Be sure to check out Games and
Toys too.
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Colors and Shapes
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Colors and Shapes: Touch & Feel Cards
Concepts: Vocabulary, concepts, sensory.
Our Suggestions: Parents can use these cards to teach their child
receptively and expressively how to identify the early vocabulary words
pictured.
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Baby Danced the Polka
Concepts: Child prediction, rhyming.
Our Suggestions: This books is one of our favorites! It is wonderful for
child prediction because of its sing-songy rhythm, repetition, and rhyming.
Read aloud with child a few times and then allow child to fill in the rhyming
animal names ie. "It was naptime on the farm. The animals drifted off to sleep.
The barn was filled with yawning cows. And pigs and goats and ____" (Sheep).
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Spot’s Birthday Party
Concepts: Prepositions
Our Suggestions: Prepositions are words that indicate location. Try to
stress prepositions in sentences to draw your child’s attention to them.
Encourage your child to say the prepositions as they encounter them in the
books. Praise “good talking.” In the following book, your child will have fun
finding the alligator under the carpet and the bear behind the curtain.
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Stage 6
Child uses around 300 words and is using 2-3 word combinations.
Be sure to check out Games and
Flash Cards too.
Touch & Feel
Opposites
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Opposites: Touch & Feel Cards
Concepts: Vocabulary, concepts, sensory.
Our Suggestions: Parents can use these cards to teach their child
receptively and expressively how to identify the early vocabulary words
pictured.
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Brain Quest
Concepts: Vocabulary, Recepive and Expressive language, concepts,
Listening comprehension.
Our Suggestions: Keep this one in the car or by the diaper changer. Each
time you have some extra time, ask your child a couple of these questions.
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The Runaway Bunny
Concepts: Pronouns
Our Suggestions: Pronouns are words that stand for a name (I, you, he,
she, him, her, they, them). Try to stress pronouns in sentences to draw your
child’s attention to them. Encourage your child to repeat your sentence. ex.
She is fishing. He is swimming. She is climbing. He is running away.
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Corduroy
Concepts: Pronouns
Our Suggestions: Pronouns are words that stand for a name (I, you, he,
she, him, her, they, them). Try to stress pronouns in sentences to draw your
child’s attention to them. Encourage your child to repeat your sentence. ex. He
is a teddy bear. She wants Corduroy. They went home.
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Maisy's Pop-Up Playhouse
Concepts: Categories, labeling objects, following directions, eliciting
sentences.
Our Suggestions: A must-have pop-up, portable playhouse! This book is
adorable and great for language. Practice pretend play as Maisy dresses, bathes
or showers, cooks and plays. Three sheets of pop-out accessories include
clothes, dishes, food, etc. which can be placed in the closets and cupboards.
Work on vocabulary by labeling objects, teach your child spatial orientation
and following directions (ie "Put the pie in the oven"). Teach your child
categories ("Where are Maisy's clothes?"). Encourage your child to talk about
what he/she is doing ("Maisy is eating").
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I Can't Said the Ant
Concepts: Rhyming
Our Suggestions: Read aloud with child a few times and then allow child
to fill in the rhyming words. Pause and look at your child when it is his turn
so that he knows you are waiting for him to "help you read".
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Stage 7
Child uses 500+ words and says 4+ word combinations.
Be sure to check out Freebies and
Articulation Books too.
Touch & Feel
Alphabet
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ABCs: Touch & Feel Cards
Concepts: Vocabulary, sensory.
Our Suggestions: Parents can use these cards to teach their child
receptively and expressively how to identify the early vocabulary words
pictured.
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Brain Quest
Concepts: Vocabulary, Recepive and Expressive language, concepts,
Listening comprehension.
Our Suggestions: Keep this one in the car or by the diaper changer. Each
time you have some extra time, ask your child a couple of these questions.
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Cranium Cariboo
Concepts: Letters, numbers, shapes, colors, turn-taking and vocabulary.
Our suggestions: This game is one of our favorites! Your child can match
colors, letters, shapes, and count numbers. He/she can also practice saying
specific sounds and words if you use your own picture cards. Children are
highly motivated with this "hide and seek" style game. It's great for having
children say lots of words with flashcards. Children always enjoy the game's
conclusion as they watch the treasure chest open revealing a large purple
diamond inside.
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I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Concepts: Past Tense, rhyming
Our Suggestions: Past tense is the “-ed” form or irregular past tenses
such as sat and ate. As your child learns the “-ed” form, he or she may begin
to say “eated” instead of “ate”. Don’t worry - this is normal. The “-ed” is
hard to hear. Try and stress this as you talk as well as the meaning of “-ed”.
Encourage your child to repeat your sentence. Praise “good talking”. ex. She
swallowed a fly.
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Stage 8
Child communicates well using sentences. Child could benefit from activities
that focus on listening comprehension and verbal expression.
Be sure to check out Articulation Books and
Online Activities too.
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Guess Who
Concepts: Turn taking, eye contact, asking questions, physical
attributes, /r/ sound (person).
Our Suggestions: While taking turns playing this game with your children
courage them to look at you as they ask each question. Model different
grammatical questions such as “Does your person have...?" "Is your person a
girl?" "Does he/she have a...?"
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Trouble
Concepts: Turn taking, counting.
Our Suggestions: A motivating popper to roll the dice. This is a game
that children love. It can easily be used a a reinforcer for practicing
flashcards or sound practice.
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