Age three:
1. Create ‘play dates’ and allow your child to play with other children.
2. Continue to read children’s stories. Ask questions during the story, “What is he doing?”
3. Provide crayons and allow your child to color. After coloring, let her talk about the picture.
4. Look at family photos. Allow your child to name familiar people in the photos.
Age four:
1. Look at family photos. Have your child describe what she sees- where she thinks the picture was
taken (inside or outside), what are they doing, are they happy or sad, etc.
2. Read more complex stories and have the child ‘read’ the story back to you by looking at the pictures.
3. Continue to include your child in the clean-up routine. Give him 2-3 step directions when cleaning,
(Get all of your toys and put them in the toy box. Etc.)
If you have questions or concerns about your child’s speech, please see his pediatrician. The doctor
can give you a referral to a Speech Pathologist.
Kenya Watson, M.A., CCC-SLP, NBCT, has been a Speech-Language Pathologist since 2004. She
graduated with her Master’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology from South Carolina State
University. She currently works for Richland School District One and has her own private practice,
Positively Speaking where she works with pre-K to school aged children.
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