Language Development

Pages on the Listen-Up Web

• Helping Your Child Learn To Read
• Hints and Tips From Parents & Therapists - Tips sent in from other parents and therapists. If you have a hint or tip to pass along, please send it to me!
• Language List - From members of the AV-Circle to assist in building vocabulary and general knowledge
• Language Stimulation Ideas - Things I did with my own son to help stimulate and develop his language.
• Some Nifty and Fun Ideas to Use in Therapy - from the authors of DASL-II.
• Spoken Language Development For Children With Hearing Impairment - Summary of the AVI Conference, March 1, 1997, New Providence, New Jersey
• Steps Into Conversational English - Some ideas from a friend of mine.
• Therapy Tutorial - This information will help you get started.
• Listen Up & Talk It Up! - A shameless commercial plug, but this is a collection of things I developed to stimulate my son's language skills.

Links to other web sites

• 28-Month-Old Not Putting Phrases Together - Has a good description of self talk and parallel talk.
• A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy - Don't pass this one up. It has printable cards for the nursery rhymes, words that rhyme, riddle rhymes, and lesson plans.
• Articulation Games
• Articulation and Oral Motor Therapy Ideas
• Articulation Therapy Ideas
• Auditory Developmental Scale: 0-6 Years - This scale represents attainable developmental guidelines for children with impaired hearing who are being immersed within the auditory verbal approach.
• Babies Learn to Talk at an Amazing Rate - a one page handout delineating language and communication milestones from 9 to 24 months of age in 3 month intervals.
• Brown's Stages: The Development of Morphology and Syntax
• Clear Speech - From Oticon4Kids. Even the best hearing aids can not return your
  child’s hearing back to normal. There are however techniques you as a parent or family can adopt to make it easier for your child to understand a conversation. This booklet outlines a method of speaking that is clearly understood and easily used in your daily life. To read this booklet, you need the Acrobat Reader application. If you do not have Acrobat Reader installed you can get it for free, download and install it here: Get Acrobat Reader
• Dog Hause Idioms - Animal idioms and expressions. 
• Encourage Your Child's Language Development
• Home Therapy Ideas - From Natural Communication, Inc.
• Infant/Toddler Checklist for Communication and Language Development
• Language Analysis
• Language Development Album - From Shu-Chen Jenny Yen's Montessori Albums
• Language Games
• Language/word Games
• Learning Language and Loving It: A guide to Promoting Children's Social and Language Development in Early Childhood Settings
• Motherese - Parentese -or- Strategies We Employ To Facilitate Language Learning - From Ellen Rhoade's Web site.
• Normal Speech Development
• Pragmatic Language Tips
• Oral Motor Exercises
• Oral Motor Exercises
• Questions and Answers about Otitis Media, Hearing and Language Development
• Sequencing Games
• Speech & Language Development - behaviors to expect of children with normally developing speech and language.
• Speech & Language Milestone Chart - this one includes activities to encourage your child's language.
• Speech Therapy Activities - This site has a variety of printable activities and ideas for different ages.
• Speech Therapy Ideas & Information
• Structural Analysis of a Language Sample
• Syndicate.com - Puzzles for strengthening vocabulary skills.
• The Listening Room: Working with Children with Cochlear Implants - Great stuff here that works with kids wearing hearing aids too.
• Therapy Ideas - From Natural Communication Inc.
• Therapy Ideas! 
• Thinking Publication's Free Ideas
• Tongue Twisters
• Toy List - Describes using toys as language developing tools, also from Natural Communication Inc.
• Very Silly Tongue Twisters
• Vocabulary.com - Lots of puzzles for strengthening vocabulary skills.
• Worksheets for use by Audio Verbal Therapists

Places where you can get graphics for use in making your own Language Development materials

• #1 Free Clip Art
• ClipArtClub
• Flash!Pro2 - Lots of graphics in the Sample area.
• Microsoft® Clip Gallery Live
• Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction - You won't want to miss this one!
• ArtToday.Com - This one isn't free, but it's the first place I look when I need clipart.

You also won't want to miss

• Cat - ChildFun's Animal Activity Themes
• Paper Finger Puppets
• Puppets and Marionettes

How you can get others to help

A visitor to this web site wanted some cards that she could pass out to family and friends that listed a few ways in which they could play a part in helping the child's language skills to grow. Together we came up with a card, and now we're making it available to you. It's in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format so if you don't have the free Adobe Acrobat reader, get it here.  Version for children who need visual information.  Version for children who need auditory information.

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