27/12/2025
🌞 Keeping Progress Going Over the School Holidays
While our team enjoys a well-earned Christmas break, we know many families are keen to keep the momentum going with their child’s communication goals. The school holidays are actually a wonderful opportunity to slow things down, connect, and weave language, literacy, and social skills into everyday moments — no worksheets needed! 🌟📚
Here are some simple, practical ways to keep progress moving while we’re closed:
💬 Talk, talk, talk!
Narrate your day, describe what you see, and model new vocabulary during everyday routines like cooking, shopping, driving, or playing. Little conversations add up to huge gains.
📚 Read together daily
Even one book a day can support comprehension, vocabulary, inferencing, and confidence. Let your child pick the book, read in silly voices, or take turns reading pages. Audiobooks count too!
🎲 Play-based learning
Games like Guess Who, UNO, Spot It, charades, LEGO, and role play build turn-taking, problem solving, flexible thinking, and language structures without feeling like “work.”
🧩 Functional communication in real moments
Encourage your child to order their own food, ask for help, greet family, or explain what they want to do next. Real-life communication practice is powerful.
✍️ Keep writing skills warm
Try holiday journals, shopping lists, letters to Santa, recipe writing, or creating a comic strip. Small, fun writing tasks keep literacy skills active.
🤝 Social skills in natural settings
Playdates, family gatherings, and Christmas activities are great opportunities to practise greetings, perspective-taking, negotiation, and managing big emotions.
🧘♂️ Slow down & regulate
The holidays can be busy and unpredictable. Support regulation with movement breaks, sensory play, quiet time, and predictable routines. Regulated kids communicate more effectively.
Remember — progress doesn’t come from perfection. It comes from meaningful connection, consistency, and everyday moments filled with communication. ❤️
