Strengthening your child’s communication skills builds the foundation and allows them to easily express themselves and understand others better. 

You can equip them with the skills to engage with the world, ask questions, and be open to absorbing new information. 

Here are 4 tips you can use daily to nurture their communication skills:

Talk Often and Clearly

Engaging in conversations with your child can benefit their communication skills. You can often ask them questions and encourage them to ask you questions, which can encourage more natural and motivated communication. 

Read Together Daily

Introducing your child to the wonder of books can help to build their understanding of words, language, and communication. You can also choose books with repetitive phrases and rhymes that make it easy to remember new words. 

Encourage Creative Play

Pretending and creative play with kitchen sets, stuffed animals, and other toys can help your child practice their communication and language skills in an imaginative way. You can encourage them to tell stories through their actions and see how fun communicating can be. 

Visit New Places Together

You can expose your child to new environments where they can grow their communication skills and have new experiences they can discuss. Outings to parks, zoos, museums, and restaurants can provide them with a new vocabulary and opportunities to describe what they see and hear with you later.