Articulation Activities
Here are some activities that you can do at home to improve your child's articulation skills:
Here are some activities that you can do at home to improve your child's articulation skills:
- Find 5 objects in your house that contain your child's speech sound. Have the child practice naming the objects.
- Have the child name all the kids in his/her class or all of your relatives that have the speech sound in their names. Practice saying each name three times.
- Have the child think of a color that contains his/her speech sound and say sentences about 5 things that are that color. (Ex: "A ___ is red.")
- Have the child think of 5 things to have for breakfast with their sound and tell a sentence about it. (Ex: "You eat ___ for breakfast").
- Find a good book. Have the child look for all of the words that have their sounds on one page before you read it. Then have them read that one page aloud using good sounds.
- There is an easy activity you can do at home to help your child carryover their sounds to conversation. You start off by giving your child 5 tokens (you can use pennies, buttons, chips, etc.). You and your child can talk about anything you want. Explain to your child that if he/she has all 5 tokens by the end of conversation, he/she will get some type of reward. Tell your child that you will be taking tokens away if he/she forgets to say their sound correctly, but you will also be rewarding them by returning tokens if they remember their target sound in tough speech situations (ex: a word that has two of their sounds in it). I would generally try to have the child end up with all 5 tokens at the end so they get their reward. This is a great activity to help your child develop self-awareness about error sounds.
- Have your child describe his/her classroom.
- Have your child describe his/her favorite movie.
- Have your child tell about things he/she did at school that day.