Tips for parents from Speech Therapists

The following is a list of suggestions to facilitate your child’s development.

Children and babies learn through play and interaction with their caregivers, siblings and peers. By nature, they are very repetitive and follow the lead of others around them. They explore their world through touch, sight and sound and learn about the physical properties of all their toys and their own abilities through their intrinsic curiosity and through exploratory play. They develop all of their senses and all of their speech abilities while playing.

What do Speech/Language Therapists do with children from birth to 3 years of age?

We work with families to provide support to children in the areas of language acquisition, articulation, oral motor stimulation, feeding issues and communication skills. These areas may include improving and working with production of sounds, communication skills development (including sign language), increase in the range of sounds, quality of language use, increase in feeding skills, improved oral motor functioning and development of oral motor muscles to improve language use.

We look at the quality of a child’s speech/language such as their pronunciation and articulation, their ability to communicate their needs, their ability to chew and swallow food properly and their families concerns. Speech Therapists are concerned with helping children reach their full developmental potential and realizing their full range of sounds and communication abilities to improve their quality of life.



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