#Language

Creative Therapy Tools: Hedbanz

Hedbanz is an exciting game of asking questions to guess what is pictured on the card on your head! Our speech-language pathologists use this game the most because it has an abundance of speech and language targets within it. During any session, this is a great warm up game to get to know each other. During speech sessions this is a great game to work on formulating, asking questions, and answering questions. The game could be changed slightly so that participants give clues

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Development

How to encourage language in 4-5 year olds

What skills develop between 4 and 5 years of age? These are some general abilities you should expect to see your child accomplish between 4 and 5 years old. Understands words relating to order (such as first, next, last) and time (such as yesterday, today, tomorrow) Follows longer and more complex directions with 3-steps or multiple features Understands almost everything that is said around them Says all speech sounds in words, although some mistakes may be heard on harder so

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Development

Three and four-year-olds: Developmental norms

What skills develop between 3 and 4 years of age? These are some general abilities you should expect to see your child accomplish between 3 and 4 years old. Hears you when you call from another room Understands words for some colors, shapes, family members (aunt, grandma, etc.) Talks about activities from preschool or friends’ homes Answers simple “who,” “what,” and “where” questions Asks “when” and “how” questions Says rhyming words, like cat-hat Uses pronouns such as I, you

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