Expressive language means the way we put words and sentences together to talk. Watch our podcast for more detailed information about what expressive language means and how you can help children and young people who find it tricky to use words and sentences to share their thoughts and ideas or take a look at the quick-fire tips below and add them to your toolkit!
Quick-Fire Toolkit
- Try to give your child time to respond to what you have asked them. This might feel like an uncomfortable silence for you, but they might need this time to work out how to answer you in the right way.
- Try using specific question prompts to help your child to give you more detailed information e.g. instead of asking “tell me about break time?”, try asking “who did you play with?”, “what game did you play?” instead
- Make it visual! Sometimes words will feel too difficult for your child and they may need to find other, more visual ways of being able to communicate how they’re are feeling e.g. drawing, comic strips, symbols, pictures.