Orlando Summer Speech Therapy Sessions & Activities

Summer can be especially busy for families here in Central Florida. Some parents even put a pause speech therapy or even stop during the summer months.

There are several reasons to keep up with speech and language therapy during the summer months.

Reach your child’s speech goals quicker 

It can be very tempting to take a vacation or break from speech therapy, but unfortunately, this can result in a backslide or regression in their progress.

Being consistent with speech therapy sessions will mean consistent progress and the sooner they will reach graduation. Keeping up their momentum means their goals are reached sooner.

Try and keep your current appointment times if possible, and current speech therapist.

When you take a break from speech therapy, it can be difficult to save your regular appointment time and current speech therapist.

It is likely, your child has connected and bonded with their speech therapist, which is a big achievement within itself. It is not worth losing the progress made working together. Your speech therapist knows and understands your child’s learning style, personality, and how to keep them engaged in activities.

How can you help your child this summer with their speech and language skills?

According to the American Speech Hearing Association: Daily reading is a simple but effective way to build language, literacy, and learning skills. ASHA urges families to use the summer to nurture joy in reading and let kids be the ones who choose what they read.

ASHA offers the following tips to help encourage reading and learning:

Embrace all kinds of books

Create a book nook

Start a book club

Cook together

Plan day trips

Play board games together

Speech and language therapy is very important to a child’s development. Unfortunately, taking a summer break can have a negative impact on all the progress a child has made.

Which is why First Words Speech Therapy provides several options when it comes to sessions over the summer. This individualized alternative to the traditional therapy has proven to be effective.