Helping your child to talk
SpeechFile - the SpeechContacts handbook
SpeechFile shows you all you need to know to help your child learn to talk. It’s a treasure chest stuffed full of information, ideas and games for you to play together. Have fun and help them learn at the same time. It’s easy.
SpeechFile contains chapters on Laying the foundations of speech, putting words together, using more complicated sentences, the mechanism of speech, how we use language, stammering as well as many other things. A sample is available as a free download (contents list and first few pages)
By the time your child has been in school for just a year they will want to be able to do lots of things. They will retell short stories, write their name, link sounds to letters and write simple words by recognising the sounds in the words. These achievements are all based on good listening, concentration and speaking skills. SpeechFile tells you all you need to know to point your child in the right direction.
Recent research shows that playing simple language games with children under two years old can achieve dramatic results. Easy, fun activities, like those in SpeechFile, will give your child a head start as he or she learns to talk well. The earlier you begin to play language games, the better start you will give your child.
It’s amazing that 7 million people in the UK can’t read or write. Many of these could have boosted their skills more easily if they had had the chance to learn better speech when they were young, just by playing the simple sorts of games in SpeechFile.
SpeechFile is a downloadable pdf file and costs £12.95