Provide this Summer Ready Home Program To your Parents
Why are Home Programs so Important?
A School SLP? Provide this handout to parents to support their kiddos over summer with fun summer activities that are free, cheap or affordable.
Parents/guardians and families are a vital and critical role in implementing the techniques we use in a clinical setting outside of the clinical setting to support language and communication.
This means it is very important for parents to continue to implement the hard work we SLPs have put in over the summer or when the clients/students are on break.
Below you will find a variety of home program activities, scripts, materials and instructions listed. This handout can support children in the home environment in the same way you have been supporting them in the clinic.
Good For multi-modal communicators and children using AAC as well.
What is Included in this document:
A Parent Accessible Explanation of How Language Development and Language Learning may look/be Targeted in a Different ways to support motivation and success.
Parent Explanation regarding how to make language learning fun and accessible and how to meet your child where they are
Parent Accessible Explanation to multi-modal learning, language and communication
Parent Accessible Explanation Regarding
Acknowledging attempts and Avoiding pressure and expectations and making learning language and communication fun, easy and motivational
5. Observe, Wait and Listen (OWL) Explanation
The DONT'S of Supporting Language and Communication Expansion
Functional Single Word Supports Using Child Led Play Based Motivational Words and Activities
How to Do Fill in the BlankSentence Starters/Preparatory Sets as a Parent
SIX Activities including materials needed, instructions, examples of of tips/techniques and how to implement