Three years ago yesterday, it was Thanksgiving and I was 3 days overdue. I woke up at 3:30 am feeling “off” and soon the contractions started. They weren’t too painful, but they were between 5-8 minutes apart so we knew it would be time soon. I headed into the hospital that AM only to be […]
One Year Ago Today…
One year ago today, it was a Saturday. I was rather pregnant (due in less than a month) and we were enjoying the post-Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It also happened to be the day before my daughter E’s birthday. She was going to be two. For some reason, her second birthday was hitting me much harder […]
Seeing The World Through Their Eyes…
Tonight on the way up the stairs for the nightly before-bed-diaper-change, I stopped for a moment to just watch my son take in his world. Ev loves climbing up the stairs, a simple everyday task that most of us don’t think twice about. But not Ev. He likes to stop about 3/4 of the way […]
Strategies to Help Your Child Talk: Setting up the Environment For Communication
In my LAST POST about Strategies to Help Your child Talk, I talked about modeling and how you need to require that your child use language. However, when I say “language” here, I am not only referring to using words. The “language” you are requiring could be the use of gestures, signs, pictures, etc…anything that […]
Friday Freebie: Falling Leaf Language Activity
I was checking out some other speech therapy blogs this week and came across a great post from Jenna at Speech Room News on how she used some foam leaves to work on “wh” questions with her students. Her post inspired me to think up a fun activity to target toddler and preschool language skills […]
Using Craft Activities to Expand & Stimulate Language Skills
I LOVE arts and crafts. I love drawing, painting, coloring, cutting, gluing, using clay, paper, paints, glitter, craft sticks, and other arts and crafts materials. Have you ever noticed that arts and crafts activities are a staple part of the curriculum in early childhood education? I challenge you to find a preschool that doesn’t incorporate […]
Strategies to Help Your Child Talk: Modeling and Requiring Language
Today, some more strategies to help your child to talk! Model the language you want him to use: This may seem like a no brainer, but modeling the language you want your child to use doesn’t always come naturally (and remember, that’s ok!) I remember when my daughter was a toddler and she would walk […]
Strategies to Help Your Child Talk: Commenting and Asking Questions
In my last two posts on Strategies to Help Your Child to Talk (that you can read HERE and HERE), I explained the strategies of self talk, parallel talk, descriptions, expansions, extensions and repetitions. Today I am going to discuss how to use comments and questions to help expand your child’s language. Make comments about […]
Owl Finger Puppet Tutorial (and Fingerplay!)
The last couple months, my daughter E and I have been learning a a lot of new songs and fingerplays. Songs and fingerplays are an AWESOME and FUN way to help your child learn new language. They also are setting your child up to be better readers as songs and fingerplays, especially the ones that […]
Occupational Therapy, Here We Come!
If you have been reading for a little while, you have probably read that my daughter E suffers from a chronic, lifelong autoimmune disease called Juvenile Arthritis. She was diagnosed just after her second birthday after several weeks of symptoms, including a very swollen knee and as a result, a severe limp. You can read […]
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