{"id":65,"date":"2013-07-18T20:37:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T00:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2013-07-18T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T00:38:56","slug":"summer-speech-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Summer Speech Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I know it&#8217;s summer and everyone is enjoying the beautiful (HOT) weather, playing outside and cooling off at the beach!\u00a0 But, it&#8217;s still important to think about speech and language skills during the summer!\u00a0 Here are some tips to include some work on speech\/language skills at the beach!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0085.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66 aligncenter\" alt=\"DSC_0085\" src=\"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0085-200x300.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Give\/follow directions while playing &#8220;Simon Says&#8221; in the water<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Take a walk along the beach and talk about the shells and sea-life you find<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Pick up some of the things you find on your walk and use your describing words to talk about them (wet\/dry, rough\/smooth, hard\/soft, color words, etc..)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Jump into some imaginary play by while building sand castles<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Grab a stick and practice writing letters\/words in the sand<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a beach scavenger hunt for objects containing your child&#8217;s target speech sounds (ex: find all of the things at the beach that start with &#8220;k&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Bring your summer reading books and relax on a towel while reading<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Work on pragmatic\/social language while making new friends at the beach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don&#8217;t forget that once you are done with the summer sun and fun, give Golden Speech Therapy a call to set up an evaluation for the fall!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s summer and everyone is enjoying the beautiful (HOT) weather, playing outside and cooling off at the beach!\u00a0 But, it&#8217;s still important to think about speech and language skills during the summer!\u00a0 Here are some tips to include some work on speech\/language skills at the beach! Give\/follow directions while playing &#8220;Simon Says&#8221; in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/?p=65\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14,20,19,23,22,21,11,6,17,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goldenspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}