The best toys for a speech delayed toddler.
Round up of the 5 top toys and books to promote speech and language development in the early years. Here are my picks for May.
Lotto games are wonderful for developing high frequency vocabulary (words that we come across again and again), because we play them over and over and this repetition is brilliant for language learning.
If you want to level-up this game for more established communicators, why not add a treasure hunt element to the game! Hide the pieces your little one needs around the room, and they have to fill up their board by hunting for them
This toy has it all! The construction element, the sensory element (that magnet click is so pleasing!) and opportunities for imaginative play with the animals.
There are so many opportunities to teach new words with this toy:
Animals & vehicles
Concepts (colours, positional language)
Action words
Play-doh may not be your fave as a parent - the mess, the colour mixing, the whole thing! But what’s not to love with this one! A dinosaur that hatches and grows!
The reason this is a good one is because of the unexpected and fun nature of the toy! When little ones are engaged in fun activities they want to share and talk to us about it! So consider introducing some ‘silly’ toys into your little one’s routine.
This is a spiral bound book which follows the same sequence as the title “do you like xxx on your xxx”. It allows you to match together the correct items or to make up silly sentences.
I love this book as it gently works on word associations and introduces the concept of having fun with language and joking. If you want to take it a step further you can talk about why the items do or don’t go together.
You could easily make this game at home - my drawing skills aren’t up to scratch but yours may be!
This is a game I would primarily use to work on following instructions, and developing understanding of descriptive vocabulary (e.g. “can you give the girl the spotty skirt”).
But you could also use it to talk about the ‘getting dressed’ routine.
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