Children aged three and a half to four years
Children aged three and a half to four years
On this page are strategies devised by speech and language therapists for you to try to help your child aged three and a half to four years to develop their communication skills. They focus on supporting your child’s understanding, talking and social interaction.
Use the arrow on the right to scroll through the short videos. Then try the ideas shown whilst you go about your everyday routines and while you play with your child. It will be helpful to watch the videos and then choose one or two strategies to try at a time with your child.
Help with understanding
The videos below help you to support your child to develop their understanding of language. If your child is not yet talking very much, it can be useful to think about and support their understanding first.
Help with talking
The videos below will support you in helping your child to develop their talking as you go about your everyday activities and play together.
If your child is not yet talking very much, or you have any worries about your child’s understanding or interaction, it will be helpful to focus on understanding and interaction before supporting them to talk.
Help with social interaction
The videos below help you to support your child to develop their social interaction. Simply choose one or two strategies at a time and use them during your everyday activities and while you play with your child. If your child is not yet talking very much, it can be useful to think about and support their social interaction first.
Help with speech sounds
These videos help you to support your child to develop speech sounds – the sounds we need for talking. Our tongue, lips, teeth, and other parts of our mouth are used to create different speech sounds, which are not the same as letters.
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