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.