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• Turn daily routines into communication opportunities. Opportunities to incorporate speech and language skill development are happening all day!

• Brushing teeth, setting the table, and mealtime all provide excellent opportunities for speech and language development.

• Make a “Giggle Jar” - write your favorite jokes on strips of paper, put them in a jar, and find time to pick a joke and share it.

• Music is a wonderful way to build, expand, remember, and practice all of your communication skills. For example, at mealtime you can sing your favorite songs and try to remember all the words, “name that tune,” the “concentration game,” or be a composer and write a song.

• You can chant or sing the words to the tune of your favorite song: “With my eyes I see, see, see, the food. With my teeth I chew, chew, chew, my food. With my tongue, I taste, taste, taste, my food.”

• You can make up any song with repetitive phrases to work on these goals simply and effectively. Be creative!

• Play games like “I Spy,” “Telephone,” “I’m going on a picnic,” “Concentration,” all of which can focus on speech and language goals alike, and can be done anywhere at any time.