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Listening is a key skill for academic success.  To be a good listener, a child must first attend to the spoken message, then understand the spoken message, and finally remember the message.  Here are some suggestions for listening games to play at home. 

1)      Play “Duck, duck goose”.  This game helps children attend to the spoken message as she must be ready to jump up when the word “goose” is spoken. 

Many children have a language spoken in the home other than English.  When a child is able to use and understand two languages equally well, he or she is said to be bilingual.  For more information on bilingualism and how it relates to speech and language development, please visit this link.  http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/BilingualChildren.htm

The following websites have links to online games for additional practice of speech sounds.

http://www.quia.com/pages/speechersclass.html

http://www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html

1.  Have your child name as many things he or she can think of that you can do with or in the snow. 
2.  Name items that are cold or winter clothing.

1. Expand on what your child is saying.  For example if he says, “The dog is barking” you can show your child how he can add more details to his sentence such as “Yes, the dog is barking loudly” or “The dog is barking at the squirrels in the back yard”.