Suzanne Ranson SLP
Helping kids reach their communication potential should be fun but life can get in the way. Finding time to create engaging activities to develop speech and language skills is often a challenge. Instead of a time to connect with your kids, speech practice becomes a power struggle with children doing whatever they can to avoid working and parents doing whatever they can to keep them going. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Welcome! My name is Suzanne Ranson.
As a Speech-Language Pathologist for over 20 years, one of the
most frequent questions that parents ask me is how to make
speech and language homework fun. Keeping kids motivated is
also a common theme in my conversations with colleagues.
Language-rich activities that provide a creative outlet while
keeping small hands busy are great for motivating children.
Activities like making cupcakes out of playdough offer lots
of opportunities to reinforce s-blends with words like “squish”,
“smush” and “stretch”. Games, like Sleeping Queens by
Gamewright, provide practice for following directions.
Activities like these (click here) make speech practice
meaningful and relevant.
But I get it…who has time to come up with all these activities?
And how can you use them to develop communication
skills?
I started this blog to support families and professionals who are
looking for meaningful activities to help kids be
the best communicators they can. I hope these activities turn
that power struggle into a time to create, communicate and
connect.
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