Early Language Handouts for Speech Therapy | Summer Activities & Coaching Ideas

Do you work in early intervention and/or support young/pre-school children with expressive language delay?

Do you support families in the home to use language strategies during daily routines and family activities?

Are you looking for an evidence-based resource to support your early intervention therapy delivery throughout the summer, that doesn’t involve any preparation?

These evidence-based summer-themed Early Language handouts have been designed to support early intervention therapists to coach parents/caregivers to use various early language strategies in a range of engaging, low-cost, summer activities. A variety of ready-to-use, parent-friendly handouts are included within this pack.

Contents:

12 Language Strategy Handouts:

Each language strategy is outlined in caregiver-friendly terms with ideas of how they can be used with a few different summer activities.

Language Strategies included:

Naming/Modeling

Commenting

Offer Choices

Pausing

Following their Lead

Copy and Add

Use Gestures

Say it Again and Again

Reduce Questions

Communication Temptations

Verbal Routines

Linguistic Mapping

16 Activity Handouts:

16 simple, low-cost summer activity handouts have been provided.

Each handout includes an explanation about the activity, suggested target words, and examples of how different language strategies can be used with the same activity. Some of the activities have visuals that can be used alongside (i.e., use the visuals when out on a nature walk or at the beach).

Activities included:

At the Beach (+ visuals)

At the Pool

At the Lake

Sidewalk Chalk

In the Sandbox

Water Play

Fruit Picking

Eating an Ice Cream

Putting on Sunscreen

Visit the Zoo

Have a Picnic

Nature Walk*

Nature Walk visuals- Things to Spot (field of 9)*

Nature Walk visuals- Things to Spot (field of 12)*

Playing Outside*

Outdoor Games and Activities Visuals*

At the Playground*

Summer Books

Summer Songs and Rhymes

Songs and Rhymes Visuals

* Please note, these pages are the same as those in the Spring Early Language Handouts. This has been reflected in the lower price for this set of handouts.

Ideas for use:

• You can use these as handouts for parents and caregivers during parent-coaching sessions.
• Share these with parents/caregivers or childcare providers during meetings.
• Send home in summer homework packets.
• Put them on a bulletin board as an “activity of the week”.
• Put them in a binder and use them for your own reference.

Download includes both US and UK/AUS English versions. Please check you have the correct version open before printing.