Verbal Exercises

hee! sorry, the notion of scheduling 'talking exercises' with littles just tickles me!
why not just talk to them the same way you would any other human?
:D khairete
S.

Unless there's been some sort of diagnosis or recommendation of verbal exercises, I just talk to them. My 4 year old doesn't need any exercises as he doesn't stop talking from the time he gets up until he goes to bed. My 20 month old has just started talking a bit. We talk to him about what's going on, ask him questions and encourage him to repeat words we've said. We don't do anything formal.

Hey M.,
Try narrating your day. This gives them a variety of words that you use everyday as well as matches the words to your actions. It is really easy and doesn't require materials.
"Now I am putting on your shirt. Your shirt is orange and has a frog on it. First one arm then two arms!" I know it sounds dumb but I believe it helps.
As they get older and can speak coherently, then you can show them how to ask questions and say please/thank you etc.
I wouldn't stress too much about it. Just model and they will follow.
Hope this helps!

In our family we always talk to the kids like they were one of us. No baby talk or alternate names for things. In time they would just talk back like one of us.

One of the children didn't speak for a long time. The doc checked her out and said she was developing normally. She was at least 18 months when she said her first thing. She said, "Getting down", in response to being asked what was she doing as she tried to get down from the highchair on her own. We never heard her voice before this incident so we asked her again and she replied, "I'm getting down." We were all in a state of shock. No "momma or daddy", no nothing but this was her first words to us.

Most of the children in our family begin talking words by at least 4 months.

Just talk to them regular, engage them in conversation, require verbal responses instead of pointing or whining or anything like that, have the doctore rule out any medical issues, and watch what happens. Hope this helps.

It has been a while since mine were 2-4, but with my child without a speech impairment, we did not do any exercises because they just were not needed. Typically developing children learn to speak naturally, by example, and by being spoken to by others, hearing good speech, repeating, and being corrected by their parents along the way.

Children who need exercises need evaluation by a speech therapist so that you do exactly what needs to be done instead of guessing about it. If you feel that your child needs help, make an appointment with a speech therapist today. Never wait with issues related to development, especailly speech which can have serious impact on cognitive development and school success if not remedeated appropriately.

M.

I don't do verbal exercises per se (not sure if this is a special terminology) but I just talk back to them like normal, answer them as if I understand what they are saying - all their seemingly babble to us is actually talk, they just don't have the vocabulary or the words developed like we do to pronounce them. So I point to stuff, I explain what things are and that helps. For the older one, words he may not phonate properly, I just emphasize it more. They say read to them, but that doesn't work for my boys. Their attention span is too short and my older 4 yr old wants to take over the reading (lol)

My son is 3 and has received speech therapy and ABA services since he was 2. We try and make the exercises Alex does into games...if it is fun they have no idea that it is therapy. I will sing songs with Alex, I will play fill in the blank games with him when reading books he is familiar with. I will point to pictures in books or on flash cards and have him name them. He LOVES flash cards. I made a drop box for him out of an oat meal drum and he loves to name the card and drop it through the slot. You can make your own flash cards. Alex likes the way the foam board felt, he is very sensory, so we made him foam cut outs of shapes and with those we could name shapes and colors. We also bought him the bath tub alphabet letters and numbers that stick on the side of the bath tub...it is so easy to find ways to stimulate words. We signed for a while and we still have some signs we use. Also if lack of words is casing tantrum behavior any way to give your child the ability to make his or her needs/wants expressed the better. A cheap and easy way we made snack time easier is we made pictures and laminated them, we stuck velcro on them and he was able to point to pick what he wanted for "some" meals and "some" snack times. We really worked on getting him to say the word or to Try...but sometimes it is not a matter of not wanting to or being stubborn...sometimes they simply cannot. I am so happy with the progress Alex has made. If you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer them to the best of my ability, based on our experience. We have high praise for Alex's therapists.
Lots of luck.

I think all you really have to do is talk to them. Point things out, use lots of descriptive words, colors, etc. I never "dumb it down" for my kids. I use big words as often as small words, so that they will pick up on them and get used to hearing them.

read books, make up stories together, spend time interacting. this accomplishes more than just speech development. unless your child is delayed or seeing a speech therapist super structured activities just take away time you could be spending engaging in natural communication.

We talk ALL day! I am always asking questions, what's this? who’s that? From making dinner to reading a book before bed I involve her in as much as I can, pronouncing every word after she says it. I feel like the woman in that commercial who is talking to her baby at the laundry mat but I know the more I talk to her the more she will talk back. Hope this helps

My daughter is 4, and a verbal exercise she loves (and brings up on her own quite often) is rhyming words.

She didn't talk much for a while or have good enunciation so I would try to get her to repeat back each word of a sentence I said to her.

It can be frustrating, I know, but they will get it!

My daughter started receiving speech therapy at 18 months because she didn't speak or even copy sounds we made. she was in that until she was 3. My son was also slow to talk and we did sing and sign classes starting when he was 21 months old - you learn songs and stories with the appropriate sign - he started signing for things right away and with in 6 months he was saying the words when he signed them and then started talking normally.
You can get baby sign dvds at most kids' stores or online, but I would recommend that you have some kind of evaluation to be sure this is just late development versus some other kind of problem.

I have a niece who is 13 months old and says over 2 dozen words. What we have found helpful is to pay attention to the sounds or words she says, and then we encourage her to say other words that are similar. So "Hi" helped her learn "hat", "key" lead quickly to "kitty", "Daddy" to "dog", "wow" to "water", etc. No pressure - just repetition, exposure, fun and encouragment.

Hello! I usually just talk to them every opportunity, sing songs with them, tell stories...nothing really organized, just something that's part bof ordinary life.

By the way, and I'm being presumptuous here (forgive me), if your child is basically still nonverbal at age two, then maybe you should go visit a developmental pediatrician for some tests.