http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/Parent-stim-Activities/
I am going through this myself at the moment with my 19month son, he is coming along well with his speech and understanding more and more each day. It is such good fun having conversations with him and teaching him the meaning of different words. I found this site and it gave some helpful tips, i hope it helps you to.
Activities:
■Encourage your baby to make vowel-like and consonant-vowel sounds such as "ma," "da," and "ba."
■Reinforce attempts by maintaining eye contact, responding with speech, and imitating vocalizations using different patterns and emphasis. For example, raise the pitch of your voice to indicate a question.
■Imitate your baby's laughter and facial expressions.
■Teach your baby to imitate your actions, including clapping you hands, throwing kisses, and playing finger games such as pat-a-cake, peek-a-boo, and the itsy-bitsy-spider.
■Talk as you bathe, feed, and dress your baby. Talk about what you are doing, where you are going, what you will do when you arrive, and who and what you will see.
■Identify colors.
■Count items.
■Use gestures such as waving goodbye to help convey meaning.
■Introduce animal sounds to associate a sound with a specific meaning: "The doggie says woof-woof."
■Acknowledge the attempt to communicate.
■Expand on single words your baby uses: "Here is Mama. Mama loves you. Where is baby? Here is baby."
■Read to your child. Sometimes "reading" is simply describing the pictures in a book without following the written words. Choose books that are sturdy and have large colorful pictures that are not too detailed. Ask your child, "What's this?" and encourage naming and pointing to familiar objects in the book.
Friday, 24 February 2012
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Manchester's children's centres to stay open, but council daycare to go
http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/1115677/Manchesters-childrens-centres-stay-open-council-daycare-go/
Catherine Gaunt, 06 February 2012, 12:54pm
The council says that there is enough good quality and affordable childcare run by the private, voluntary and independent sector.
The plans will be put before the children and young people’s scrutiny committee tomorrow and will be considered by the council’s executive on 15 February.
Sure Start children’s centres will become community hubs offering a wider range of services to people of all ages, including early years, and a new citywide outreach service will be introduced.
The service will expand pilot outreach schemes already in place. Outreach workers will aim to visit every child in their own home in their first three years, by working closely with GPs, midwives and health visitors.
The proposals follow a three-month consultation that involved more than 8,000 meetings with parents and attracted more than 4,000 written responses with parents, schools, health staff and others.
The council has to cut £22m from its budget of £29m for early years provision.
The council said that it would ensure that there were enough high-quality, affordable childcare places available for families before withdrawing council-run nurseries.
Mike Livingstone, the council’s director of children’s services, said, ‘Our analysis shows there is already enough good quality and affordable daycare provision across the city being provided by the private, voluntary and independent sector, so over time we will no longer need to provide it ourselves.
‘What we do need to do, however, is to ensure that the right kind of quality daycare is available in the right places, so we’re going to spend the next two years making sure this happens.
‘We will only stop providing daycare in different parts of the city when we are satisfied that there is enough high quality alternative provision to meet the needs of local families.’
The impact of these changes will be assessed on a case by case basis and for families that would be worse off in work than out of work, additional support will be given through the Manchester Investment Fund.
The council says that the changes will lead to more families using Sure Start services and that this will improve outcomes for children and families.
Councillor Afzal Khan, executive member children’s services, said, ‘At the heart of our proposals is the need to ensure that Manchester parents are ready to parent, that children are ready for school, and that we do what we can to support more of our families into work.
Catherine Gaunt, 06 February 2012, 12:54pm
The council says that there is enough good quality and affordable childcare run by the private, voluntary and independent sector.
The plans will be put before the children and young people’s scrutiny committee tomorrow and will be considered by the council’s executive on 15 February.
Sure Start children’s centres will become community hubs offering a wider range of services to people of all ages, including early years, and a new citywide outreach service will be introduced.
The service will expand pilot outreach schemes already in place. Outreach workers will aim to visit every child in their own home in their first three years, by working closely with GPs, midwives and health visitors.
The proposals follow a three-month consultation that involved more than 8,000 meetings with parents and attracted more than 4,000 written responses with parents, schools, health staff and others.
The council has to cut £22m from its budget of £29m for early years provision.
The council said that it would ensure that there were enough high-quality, affordable childcare places available for families before withdrawing council-run nurseries.
Mike Livingstone, the council’s director of children’s services, said, ‘Our analysis shows there is already enough good quality and affordable daycare provision across the city being provided by the private, voluntary and independent sector, so over time we will no longer need to provide it ourselves.
‘What we do need to do, however, is to ensure that the right kind of quality daycare is available in the right places, so we’re going to spend the next two years making sure this happens.
‘We will only stop providing daycare in different parts of the city when we are satisfied that there is enough high quality alternative provision to meet the needs of local families.’
The impact of these changes will be assessed on a case by case basis and for families that would be worse off in work than out of work, additional support will be given through the Manchester Investment Fund.
The council says that the changes will lead to more families using Sure Start services and that this will improve outcomes for children and families.
Councillor Afzal Khan, executive member children’s services, said, ‘At the heart of our proposals is the need to ensure that Manchester parents are ready to parent, that children are ready for school, and that we do what we can to support more of our families into work.
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