Communication Tips
Here are suggested activities along with their targeted goals.
Materials: Toy car and hammer. What you can do:
• Turn taking and waiting skills.
• Sound/verbal imitation.
• Count ‘1,2,3’ or say “ready, set go” before hitting the hammer toy or pushing the car.
• Object naming: Introduce your child with different categories of words such as pronouns “my”, colours “red”, nouns “hammer”, “car”, “police”, actions verbs “hit”, “knock”, “go”, adjectives “fast”, “slow”.
• Gross motor imitation.
• Increase vocab/sentence length by combining words to form phrases!
Material: Recycle box. scissors, cellophane tape, colour pencils and markers
• Improve eye contact.
Materials: Recycled box, double-sided tape or blu tack, scissors, colour pencils and markers
• Improving matching skills
• Identify body parts: Asking questions to elicit your child to find the targeted body parts. You may reward him for the correct response.
Materials: A piece of cloth or a pillow, any toy your child may show interests in
• Develop object permanence by helping your child to understand that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be perceived (seen, heard, touched, smelled, or sensed in any way). This is one of the preverbal skills to develop for the children aged 6-9 months old.
Adapted from article in 1st issue of Grace House Magazine, written by Nik Nor Haramaini binti Nik Abdul Ghani, Speech-Language Therapist in Hospital Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Universiti Putra Malaysia