https://www.littlegiggleschicago.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-03-19 https://www.littlegiggleschicago.com/blog/top-six-signs-to-teach-your-baby monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643ef8cd0a184461a9fe389f/c31a3c99-0043-4b32-8e61-5a04794bbd97/EAT.jpg Blog - Top Six Signs to Teach Your Child - EAT Use this sign when announcing routines (“It’s time to eat!”), narrating your actions (“I’m eating cereal”) and your child’s actions (“You’re eating banana!”), and responding when your child attempts to access food (“It looks like you want to eat! You’re hungry, let’s eat”). To sign ‘eat,’ close your fingers and thumb together and tap toward your mouth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643ef8cd0a184461a9fe389f/3ebfe4d0-5b34-4657-927b-d05493470567/HELP.jpg Blog - Top Six Signs to Teach Your Child - HELP Use this sign when you see that your child needs help. Say, “It looks like you need help! I can help you!” Provide the help they need, then say, “I helped you.” When your child signs ‘help’ to you, add, “Thank you for asking for help!” Model asking for help by struggling with something, like standing up or opening a container, and say, “I need help! 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Use this sign when offering your child more of something. “You can have more blueberries. Yummy! Here are some more blueberries.” “Let’s do some more bubbles.” Be aware that when babies start signing ‘more,’ they might use it as a general “I want something” and you might ask “more what?!” Try to figure out what they are asking for more of and give them that word (and sign if you know it!) too. “Oh, you want more apple. Here’s more apple.” Note: It’s absolutely ok to acknowledge your child’s communication and not be able to honor it at that moment. Maybe you ran out of crackers (or you don’t want them to eat any more) but they’re signing ‘more.' You say, “I see that you want more crackers, but crackers are all done for now”). 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Some nursery rhymes to sing to your baby include: Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Mary Had a Little Lamb, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. Tip: use visuals (like this book) and gestures to support what the child is hearing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643ef8cd0a184461a9fe389f/84577227-da9c-4fd3-b4ce-f5398886c6e9/LittleGiggles_Aug23%2893of118%29.jpg Blog - Singing for Speech and Language Development: Nursery Rhymes and Preschool Songs - Skills targeted with nursery rhymes and preschool songs: gestures and sign language animal and environmental sounds basic concepts like body parts, colors, and numbers core vocabulary like up, down, open, eat spoken word production https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643ef8cd0a184461a9fe389f/ce211a46-46c7-4269-aa2e-d6d475594d32/LittleGiggles_Aug23%2837of118%29+%281%29.jpg Blog - Singing for Speech and Language Development: Nursery Rhymes and Preschool Songs - Make it stand out Old MacDonald Had a Farm gestures: I pat my knees or hold the animal if using a manipulative (this songs calls for either the animal picture or object to put the sounds and animal names into context) sounds: moo moo, baa baa, neigh neigh, oink oink, bock bock, and more! words: animal labels tip: use the expectant pause strategy to allow the child to fill in sounds or words. sing “Old MacDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o, and on that farm he had a…” hold up the animal and wait 5-10 seconds if the child needs your model, say the word: “COW!” and continue singing “with a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there, here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a…” again, wait 5 seconds and see if the child fills in the last moo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643ef8cd0a184461a9fe389f/985c11c1-6f21-4ca6-af54-7b44c7300772/Screenshot+2023-09-11+at+12.14.36+PM.png Blog - Singing for Speech and Language Development: Nursery Rhymes and Preschool Songs - Five Green and Speckled Frogs gestures: show number of frogs on your fingers, rub tummy for “yum yum,” fan self for “where it was nice and cool” sign language: sit, eat sounds: ribbit ribbit tip: make a simple document with five frogs and a log, print, cut out frogs, and play with them during the song. https://www.littlegiggleschicago.com/blog/singingforspeechandlanguage monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643ef8cd0a184461a9fe389f/e2837514-0a36-4bf6-9ba2-4a29aaa61916/Screenshot+2023-09-11+at+11.41.56+AM.png Blog - Singing for Speech and Language Development: Verbal Routines and Greetings - Now, put those phrases to a melody and repeat them in a song of sorts. If you’re like me, you’re singing “Good Morning” from Singin’ in the Rain. Maybe you’re singing “eat, eat, eat” set to the NBC chimes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/643ef8cd0a184461a9fe389f/b1fd6e51-0f7f-4c35-b177-4eca4ecce4bc/LittleGiggles_Aug23%2898of118%29+%281%29.jpg Blog - Singing for Speech and Language Development: Verbal Routines and Greetings - We can teach waving and the words “hi” and “bye” through song! At the beginning and end of all my baby and toddler classes and my individual speech therapy sessions, I sing, “hello [name], hello [name], hello [name], it’s time to wave/say…” and then give an expectant pause. I wait 5 seconds and allow the child to use their form of communication as a fill-in. Then, I say “hi” or “bye” with a wave, either as a model for the child or in imitation of the child. 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