Early Language Handouts for Childcare Settings - Preschool Speech Handouts

Do you work in early intervention and/or support toddlers/pre-school children with expressive language delay? Do you support staff in childcare/early years settings to use language strategies?

Are you looking for an evidence-based resource to support your early intervention therapy delivery in early childhood classrooms, that doesn't involve any preparation?

Well, these Early Language Handouts for Childcare Settings may be just what you need. They're sure to be a must-have item in your EI therapy toolkit!

Encouraging carryover of language facilitation strategies and skills into early years settings can be difficult at times.

But these evidence-based EI handouts have been designed to make it easier and more effective for you!

These handouts outline how to use general language facilitation strategies in a range of activities applicable to childcare settings. They are written in caregiver-friendly terms, so they can be easily understood by childcare providers.

These handouts aim to:

• improve communication between therapists and childcare providers
• support the use of language facilitation strategies in the childcare setting
• support the carryover of skills and strategies between visits
• support a language-rich environment in the preschool/early years setting.

⭐ CONTENTS:

• Information for therapists with ideas for use.
• Detailed research overview about EI in childcare settings, early language strategies, and joint planning.
• 12 early language strategy handouts- each focusing on a different language strategy with ideas for how these can be used during various activities.
• 20 handouts for different setting-based activities. Each handout includes extra information (some also include play ideas), suggested target words, and examples of language facilitation strategies that would be useful to use with that activity.
• A joint planning sheet.
• A "language strategies- top tips" sheet.

The 12 Language Strategy handouts include: Naming/Modeling, Commenting, Choices, Pausing, Following their Lead, Copy and Add, Use Gestures, Say it Again and Again, Reduce Questions, Communication Temptations, Verbal Routines, and Linguistic Mapping

The 20 Setting-based activity handouts include the following activities.

These activities were chosen as they are common activities in early years settings:

Circle Time

Centers/Activities

Storytime

Free Play

Songs and Rhymes

Arts and Crafts

Water Play

Cooking/Baking

Going Outside

Outside Time

At the Playground

Clean up Time

Using the Toilet

Diaper Change

Washing Hands

Snack Time

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

⭐ IDEAS FOR USE:

• Use the Joint Plan sheet with the childcare provider to support planning and carryover, if appropriate.
• Share the handouts with the childcare provider during setting-based visits.
• Share the handouts with the childcare provider during meetings.
• Put the handouts on a bulletin board as an “activity of the week” or “strategy of the week”.
• Put these handouts in a binder and use them for your own reference if doing “push-in” therapy in your setting-based visits.