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Home Exercises: Speech Therapy

In this section you will find exercises, interventions, and strategies that have been recommended to you by your speech language pathologist. These may include: Oral motor exercises, home program recommendations, feeding strategies, strategies to promote language development, and more! 

Video: Oral Motor Activities to Do at Home

  • Link: https://youtu.be/1QmGCq1ZXbs
  • Technique: Oral motor.
  • Exercise Objective: To increase oral motor awareness, strength, coordination, and range of motion. 
  • Exercise Requirements: Child must be cleared by a physician or a speech language pathologist to drink fluids by mouth for activities involving drinking from the straw. 
  • Precautions: Be cautious if your child has muscle over-exertion precautions in place, or diet restrictions. Child must be supervised by a parent or caregiver at all times. 
  • Equipment: Straws of all sizes, cotton balls, poms poms, bubbles, electric toothbrush.
  • Contraindications: Children who are NPO should not perform straw-drinking activity. 

Video: Using Signs to Communicate with your Child

  • Link: https://youtu.be/fZx2EYlt-iA
  • Technique: Language, cognition, early intervention.
  • Exercise Objective: To promote functional communication of basic wants and needs. To supplement verbal and non-verbal communication. 
  • Exercise Requirements: None. 
  • Precautions: Children who do not tolerate touch to their hands for hand over hand prompting. 
  • Equipment: None. 
  • Contraindications: None.

Video: Reading to your Child to Promote Language

  • Link: https://youtu.be/h5-YOro6gq8
  • Technique: Language, cognition, early intervention.
  • Exercise Objective: To enhance pre-verbal or verbal communication skills, to improve receptive language skills, and to promote reading comprehension. 
  • Exercise Requirements: None. 
  • Precautions: None.
  • Equipment: Books. 
  • Contraindications: None.

Video: Sabotage as a Language Strategy

  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxcPkhKq4bI
  • Technique: Language, cognition, and early intervention.
  • Exercise Objective: To improve expressive communication using a language strategy that utilized as a tool during play and everyday living activities.
  • Exercise Requirements: None.
  • Precautions: None.
  • Equipment: Toys, clear plastic bins, or boxes with lids.
  • Contraindications: N/A.

Video: Following Directions During Play

  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25oZ27V5Vs
  • Technique: Language, cognition, and early intervention.
  • Exercise Objective: To improve comprehension, receptive language skills, attention, and vocabulary development.
  • Exercise Requirements: None.
  • Precautions: Children who do not tolerate touch to their hands for hand over hand prompting.
  • Equipment: Toys.
  • Contraindications: N/A.

Video: Using your AAC to Play Games

  • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNWAuIBBjc
  • Technique: Language, cognition.
  • Exercise Objective: Structuring games around integrating your child’s AAC device.
  • Exercise Requirements: The child should have basic, functional understanding of how to use their AAC device.
  • Precautions: None.
  • Equipment: High, lite or low tech AAC device. Refer to your primary SLP to determine the best AAC device for you child.
  • Contraindications: N/A.