Ming shows how to run speech therapy at home with 4-6 year-olds using board games and toy routines. Stop the action to make your child talk, start with simple questions about who and what's happening, then introduce mistakes on purpose so they correct you.
Hey, welcome back to this video series about how to do speech therapy at home, DIY style. Okay, and in this video we're gonna talk about how to do speech therapy for four onwards. Four to five to six maybe. And we're gonna stop at primary school. We're not gonna talk about primary school speech therapy because they're old enough to watch someone over the Internet, hopefully. Okay, so we're gonna stick to the preschool children. Preschool meaning pre primary school. If your child isn't talking, you can use the techniques I for two to three years old, they still work before onwards. This is where you might need to start using more toys. What I love to do is to use board games. Board games are nice because it's a routine, it's fixed and you just play one round just before you sleep. Like I was talking about five to 10 minutes. You can teach from simple sentences to like complex sentences. I'll run you through it very, very quickly. Let's say that your child is playing Chutes and Ladders. Chutes and Ladders, Uno board games where I need to roll a dice and everything like that board. Those are great. Okay, so how do you do it? Is in the beginning you shouldn't teach any language. The first task is always for them to understand the routine. And that's the same with the 2 and 3 year olds that we talked about before. You have to establish a routine. A game is a routine. We take turns so they understand that there's a turn taking aspect, how the rules work. After that we can put the language inside. So the first part, what we want to do for language is, is to talk about who's doing what. So we can ask who questions like whose turn is it Mom's turn, Nathan's turn. And then after that you can narrate what's happening and your child can say the same things back. When you do it, you just stop moving. If they don't talk right, let's say that Nathan rolls the dice. Oh, Nathan, roll the six. Nathan walk six steps. Walk six steps. So Nathan walks. One, two, three, four, five, six. Finished. Nathan's turn's finished. Whose turn is it? Mommy's turn or daddy's turn? All right, and then you stop and then you're. Because of the routine, your child wants it to keep on going. So when you stop, you can prompt or you have someone else like your other half, your spouse, you might say, oh, whose turn? Mommy. Oh, mommy, what do now? What does mommy do now? Oh, Mommy, roll the dice. Okay, Mommy rolled the dice. Thanks for telling Me what to do. And then what do you do? You look at Nathan in an expectant way, like. And then after that, you're like, oh, six. How many steps? Six. And then you stop again. If they're still not talking, you can prompt them a little bit and say, mommy, walk. Oh, mommy walk. Six. One, two, three, four, five, six. Good job. Finished. Whose turn might be daddy, might be whoever. And once you have that routine, whenever you stop, the language comes out. Because if they don't talk, you don't move, and they want the stuff to move. And then once they master that, once they're able to say that kind of stuff, you can start to do things that are. That are wrong, Right? So for instance, if you roll a dice, it's five steps. You walk two, you do one, two. Finished. And then your kid, your child might find it funny and find it strange. They might say no. If they don't say anything, you can say, is this right? Is this correct? And then you can show the number on the dice and the number of times you walked. If they understand the routine and the rules good enough, they should be able to say no and say no, four, no, two, according to a number. And this is where you teach more language to them because it's not specific enough. You don't understand. So that's why you teach. If they're specific enough in their language, the game will continue. It's not only limited to board games. If you can make a routine out of other toys like Mr. Potato Head, put the arm, put the whatever, and we take turns building one, then that's great. If you have two potato heads, then one person can follow the other person making it. That's one way of playing it. There's many, many ways that you can play with a toy to make it turn based to make a routine out of it. And when you stop, they have to talk in order for it to continue. That's one of the best ways to teach language, in my opinion. Okay, so with that said, I hope this video was helpful to you. If you want to start therapy for yourself and your child at home, please go to agentsofspeech.com checklist download our list of tools and toys that we use for our home therapy clients. And we'll be sending you a lot more updates through email so you learn the ways and how to do things and how to especially in terms of mindset. All right, that's it for this video. Hopefully you will join me in our last video of this video series about how to do language facilitation. On a basic level when the times you're not doing those table tasks. Right. So I'll see you in the next video soon. All right, Goodbye.
