Encouraging Language Development in Your Preschooler-Topic Overview
Encouraging Language Development in Your Preschooler Guide
Reading to your child daily helps him or her to develop speech and language skills. Reading together also offers a time of quiet comfort and bonding.
Limit TV time to 2 hours a day or less. TV doesn't seem to encourage or support children's development of speech or language skills. In general, spoken words make little impression unless they are in the context of a conversation with someone the child knows and cares about.
Encouraging Language Development in Your Preschooler - Topic Overview
Encouraging Language Development in Your Preschooler Guide
Reading
Reading to your child daily helps him or her to develop speech and language skills. Reading together also offers a time of quiet comfort and bonding.
- Choose books that show lots of action. Ask your child to point to familiar items and make the sounds that go with them. Say "Point to the fire engine" and "What sound does the fire engine make?"
- Visit the library on a regular basis.
TV
Limit TV time to 2 hours a day or less. TV doesn't seem to encourage or support children's development of speech or language skills. In general, spoken words make little impression unless they are in the context of a conversation with someone the child knows and cares about.