Here are 10 simple activities that you can do at home, including the key vocabulary to focus on, to help develop your child's speech and oral language.
The key to these activities is about engaging with the child and using simple, useful language that matches the actions of play.
This puts the language into context with what they are experiencing and gives them opportunities to hear, use and practice the language in a way that makes sense to them.
Often the simple phrases are repeated over and over again in the same activity which is what you want.
The words that you can focus on are listed for each activity under "Language" but you can still use them in correct sentence structure whilst focusing on the key words.
For example, "Ball. You have a ball" and "Give ball. Give me the ball please."
For more specific information about how to develop your child's speech through play and to hear our personal journey with oral language concerns, see here.
