How Do You Develop Your Childrens Speech And Language Skills Through Play And Positive Daily Interaction?
• Make time for your children! Be aware that children learn speech and language through listening, watching, exploring, copying, initiating, responding, playing and interacting with others. For those first few years most of the important interaction is going to be between the child and their parents, carers and maybe siblings. Finding time to spend with your children and have a shared focus is very important if you want to help them to develop their speech, language and social skills. One-to-one time will benefit your child in the long term. • Avoid the TV. You are doing your child a disservice if you have spare time, but put them in front of the TV. There are a few (and only a few!!) children’s TV programs that are in any way educational. Your child is more likely to learn about things from one-to-one playtime with his parent or carer. TV and video games are passive entertainment and do not encourage any interaction. Studies now show that children who watch too much TV in their early
