❄️ Giving the Gift of Speech & Language
Through holiday activities, cozy moments, and everyday play
Welcome Families!
Winter is a wonderful time for connection, conversation, and learning through play. With more time spent indoors, simple activities like coloring, sharing cocoa, baking holiday treats, reading together, or pretending with toys can spark big communication growth.
This season brings extra cozy moments, giggles, and opportunities to talk, explore, and imagine together, and every small moment helps your child’s speech and language skills grow.
This page is here to offer easy, practical ideas for supporting talking, listening, and learning during the everyday play your family already enjoys.
❄️Why Winter Is a Wonderful Time for Communication Growth
Winter naturally creates moments that help children build speech, language, and cognitive skills, often without families even realizing it! With more time spent indoors, routines slow down just enough to make space for conversation, imagination, and connection.
Here’s why this season boosts communication:
✨ 1. Cozy routines invite conversation
Sharing cocoa, snuggling with blankets, or enjoying quiet mornings together gives children more chances to hear language, practice words, and engage with you.
✨ 2. Simple play becomes rich learning
Coloring, puzzles, pretend play, and reading snowy stories encourage vocabulary, sentence development, sequencing, and imagination.
✨ 3. Winter activities spark new vocabulary
Snowflakes, scarves, mittens, cold weather, decorations, baking, lights. These all offer fresh words and concepts to explore during everyday moments.
✨ 4. More time together = more natural speech practice
Daily routines like getting dressed, making snacks, playing indoors, or driving to activities provide wonderful opportunities to model language and encourage talking.
✨ 5. Kids feel safe and connected
Warm, predictable family time helps children feel emotionally regulated and regulated kids communicate more, imitate more, and learn more.
❄️ Simple Ways to Support Speech & Language Every Day
You don’t need special materials or long activities to help your child’s communication grow. The most meaningful learning happens in the small, cozy moments you share together. Here are easy, natural ways to encourage speech and language through everyday winter play:
✨ 1. Talk About What You’re Doing (Narrate Play & Routines)
Describe actions, feelings, and objects as you go:
“You’re stirring the cocoa… wow, it’s warm! Mine is sweet!”
This builds vocabulary, comprehension, and sentence structure.
✨ 2. Take Turns During Play & Conversations
Turn-taking teaches kids how conversations work.
Whether you’re coloring, stacking blocks, or pretending to sled, model short back-and-forth moments:
“My turn to draw a snowflake… now your turn!”
✨ 3. Expand on What Your Child Says
Repeat and add one more word or idea:
Child: “Snow!”
Adult: “Yes, soft snow!”
Over time, this boosts longer sentences and richer language.
✨ 4. Use Everyday Items to Spark Imagination
Blankets become caves, pillows become mountains, mittens become puppets, all perfect for building pretend-play skills, vocabulary, and storytelling.
✨ 5. Slow Down & Embrace the Cozy Moments
Winter naturally invites slower routines: reading, baking, coloring, snuggling. Use these quiet moments to talk, ask simple questions, and enjoy being fully present.
✨ 6. Model, Don’t Pressure
Your child learns most from hearing rich, relaxed language around them. Keep it fun, playful, and pressure-free.
✨ 7. Celebrate Little Wins
A new sound… a new word… a new way of playing…
Small progress is big progress.
❄️ Winter Speech & Language Screenings
Curious about your child’s speech or language development?
Miss Angie offers individual, play-based speech and language screenings throughout the winter season for families in the Suwanee and surrounding areas.
The screening will provide a snapshot of how your child communicates and if a further assessment is warranted.
✨ Screenings are approximately 30–45 minutes and can be tailored to your child’s needs.
I offer:
Speech-only screening: $35
Language-only screening: $35
Combined speech & language screening: $50
Here’s what each screening may include:
Speech Skills
A play-based look at speech sounds, clarity, and early articulation
Language Skills
Observation of vocabulary, expressive language, and sentence use
Listening skills and ability to follow directions
Early social communication and play skills
What You Receive
A clear, parent-friendly written summary within 48 hours
Recommendations for next steps, if needed
✨ Who Screenings Are Helpful For
Children ages 18 months to 7 years and older who:
Are hard to understand
Use fewer words than expected for their age
Have difficulty following directions
Show frustration when trying to communicate
Are not combining words or sentences yet
Have challenges with social play, attention, or behavior during communication
✨ How to Schedule
Screenings are offered by appointment at:
various daycare and preschool locations
In-home
Select community locations
Click below to check availability or request a time:
✨ A Note for Families
These screenings are not diagnostic, but they offer valuable insight into your child’s communication strengths and areas for growth. They also help determine whether a full evaluation would be beneficial.