Supporting speech sound development:
Sound Bombardment Activities
About Sound Bombardment Activities
Sound Bombardment activities develop children’s awareness of speech sounds by highlighting the same sound at the beginning of lots of different words.
These activities are helpful for children who change or miss out speech sounds in their words.
Important Information
You can choose a ‘theme sound’ (e.g. ‘b’, ‘m’, ‘s’, ‘f’) for a few days or a week before changing to a new sound.
Find lots of things from around your home that start with that sound. For example, for the ‘b’ sound: ball, book, banana, bear (teddy bear), boat (toy!), boot, box.
The items can be put in a box, pillowcase or hidden around the room for your child to find.
Name the items for your child, highlighting the sound at the beginning of the word, for example: “book! That starts with the ‘b’ sound. ‘b’ for book!”
It is important to say the sounds and not the letter names,
for example: a short ‘b’ sound (not ‘be’), a long ‘mmm’ sound (not ‘muh’ or ‘em’).
It doesn’t matter if your child still changes or misses out some of the sounds in their versions of the words, the aim is for them to hear the sound at the beginning of lots of different words.
These activities are demonstrated in our Sound Bombardment video.
If you are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or struggling to cope please contact your GP who may refer you to the relevant healthcare professional.
What does Cardiff and Vale offer?
The Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service can offer you advice and support to help you support your child’s speech, language and communication development.
Our dysphagia team can offer advice and support regarding your child’s feeding and swallowing skills.
If your child is already known to our service, please follow the advice you have been given
by the Speech and Language Therapist. If you have any queries, please contact us via the number below.
If you live in the Cardiff and Vale area and have concerns about your child’s speech, language, communication or feeding skills and they are not currently known to our service, please phone us to discuss your concerns.
Contact details
Address
Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service
Cardiff and Vale UHB
1st Floor, Woodlands House
Maes-y-Coed Road
Cardiff
CF14 4HH
Telephone: 029 2183 6585
