• Speech Activities for Practice at Home

    • When riding in the car, find things with your special sound
    • When looking at books or magazines, find pictures with your special sounds
    • At the grocery store, see how many foods you can find with your special sounds
    • How many animals, foods, kinds of cars, sports, famous people, TV shows, etc can you think of that have your special sound?
    • Cut out pictures in old magazines that have your sound
    • When assisting with cooking, find ingredients with your speech sound
    • Tell someone about a TV show using your sound
    • Read aloud to someone using your sound
    • Re-tell a story or something that happened during the day using your sound
    • Have a special time of day to practice such as bedtime or bath time, etc. Sometimes sound practice may feel a bit stressful for your child. Mealtime is a good time for some children to practice, but is a bad time for other children. Having other people present for speech practice is not always a good idea.
    • Have your parents fill a box full of objects that contain your speech sound. You have to feel around without peeking to guess what the object is.
    • Play guessing games by giving clues/ descriptions about an item that contains the special sound
    • Play “I Spy” where your child finds objects in the room based on clues you give
    • Play “Bag of Cards”. Put pairs of cards with the special sound in a bag. Take turns picking cards out of the bag, trying to get pairs
    • Suitcase Game (no cards needed). “I’m going on a trip and in my suitcase I’ll take (word with special sound). Next player repeats sentence with the first item and adds new item for the suitcase. Continue adding on and repeating in order!