3. Talk Less, Show More: Using Temporal Cueing to Boost Speech, Language, Literacy, and Social Skills

Are you talking more or showing more in your therapy sessions? If you’re doing most of the talking, you may be missing one of the most powerful strategies for creating real, lasting change.In this episode of the Preschool SLP Podcast, Kelly Vess introduces temporal cueing — the use of gestures and movement in space to support communication. Temporal cueing bridges the gap for children with auditory processing, motor, and proprioception difficulties by leveraging their visual and kinesthetic strengths.You’ll discover how to use temporal cueing to:Build phonemic awareness through movement (e.g., rocking a baby for /b/).Improve speech sound production with visual-tactile cues for lip closure.Support word retrieval and vocabulary growth with gestures like forming a ball.Expand syntax and complex sentences using temporal cues for conjunctions such as “because.”Strengthen behavioral regulation with simple, visual hand cues.By “talking less and showing more,” you empower children to actively generate language — ideating, retrieving words, sequencing, planning motor movements, and executing speech themselves. This is where the real growth happens.🔑 Key TakeawaysActions speak louder than words — gestures create deeper, multimodal learning opportunities.Challenge creates change — temporal cues scaffold children to perform at their highest level.Beyond speech — temporal cueing improves literacy, language, social communication, and behavior.💡 If you’re ready for educationally rich, empirically based, ready-for-use weekly activities that integrate strategies like temporal cueing into your therapy, the SIS Membership is designed for you.👉 Join SIS today at www.kellyvess.com/sis