How to Do Speech Therapy at Home
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What is the overall framework for doing speech therapy at home?
If you are a parent of a child with a communication delay or a speech and language disorder, then this episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast is for you. I am speech language pathologist Carrie Clark, and today I'm going to be showing you how to do speech therapy at home. including how to choose what to work on and how to work on it. So we're gonna be going over all of that today. So welcome to the Speech and Language Kids podcast. If you are new to me, I run the website Speech and Language Kids and then we have our hub which is our membership area where I am recording this podcast live. So if you would like to participate in our live recordings in the future, you can head over to Hub dot speechandlanguage kids dot com.
We are also going to be doing a very fun, speechy, uh, virtual summer camp starting in June of 2025. And that is coming up very soon. So we're gonna we're gonna be releasing information about that. It is a way for you to help your child at home get caught up on language skills. So stay tuned and we'll give you all the details on that. Hey Missy. Hey Tony Tony Ann. Welcome. You guys uh can pop over into the chat and say hello and ask questions as we go along. All right, so today we're going to talk about how to do speech therapy at home. So I'm going to start this with my my normal disclaimer that of course this is this information, this advice is not supposed to be replacing you going to a speech therapist.
We always recommend that you seek a consultation with someone in your area who can give you specific information about your child. But I do know that a lot of times it takes a long time to get into the therapist, or maybe you're just wanting some tips to boost communication skills for a child who is maybe a little bit behind, but not so far that we need therapy. So I wanted to make sure that you guys had the information you need to be able to do this at home. Whether you're waiting to get into a therapist or you just want to boost those language skills at home. Home. So let's start. I'm going to give you kind of a whole framework here of how to walk you through this process of figuring out how to help your child who's struggling in communication skills.
So the first thing that we want to do is we want to narrow it down to the specific area of communication that the child is having trouble with. A lot of times when I have families come to me, they might know that there's something wrong or that something isn't quite seeming the way that it seems for other children, but they don't really know how to describe it. They don't know what to put how to put their finger on it. And so we start very simply by just narrowing it. Down to the area of communication that is impacted. Now, if you already know what this child needs to work on, you are already in therapy and you know what they're working on in therapy, then you can skip ahead to the section where I'm going to tell you about actually working on those skills.
But if you are in that boat where you're not quite sure what to work on, then this is where we start. So we look at the main areas of communication and Those are speech, language, which are different.
How can I identify which communication area my child needs help with?
I'm gonna explain it, voice or resonance. Fluency, social communication, and functional communication. So let's go through each of those so you have an overview of what each one is. So speech sounds is our ability to actually pronounce the sounds. So if your child is talking but they are hard to understand, or you're noticing that they have errors on specific speech sounds, then that is going to be the speech area as opposed to to the language area. Language is made up of all of the different language skills, all of the different use and understanding of words to create sentences. We're talking about grammar and syntax and vocabulary and their ability to comprehend what is being said to them and follow directions and ask and answer questions.
All of those things are language. So speech is just how it sounds. Language is kind of everything else. So that area covers most of our kids that come to us with communication challenges.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the overall framework for doing speech therapy at home?
0:00–3:09
2
How can I identify which communication area my child needs help with?
3:09–7:17
3
What steps should I take to narrow down to a single skill to work on?
7:17–11:10
4
How do I break a skill into the easiest version and gradually increase difficulty?
11:10–15:02
5
Why is five minutes of focused practice each day enough for progress?
15:02–18:20
6
How can I integrate practice into daily routines without overwhelming my child?
18:20–22:39
7
What resources and tools does the SLK Hub provide for home therapy?
22:39–23:29