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The Great Bike Giveaway: Special Bikes for Special Needs

March 4, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: Giveaways, The Friendship Circle Blog Leave a Comment

I believe I was seven when I got my first real two wheel bike. It was red with a white basket with flowers on it and streamers hanging from the  handlebars. I was so excited to learn how to ride it! I can remember vividly, over 25 years later, riding that bike around my neighborhood with […]

How to Help Your Child Talk: Respond Meaningfully

March 3, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: How to Help Your Child Talk Leave a Comment

Welcome to my How to Help Your Child Talk series. These posts are intended to give you simple tips to help you work with your child so YOU can be your child’s best “speech therapist.” You may want to try out a new tip/strategy for a week or so and then when you feel like you’ve “got […]

How Our Words Shape Our Children’s Language and Literacy Skills

February 25, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: How to Help Your Child Talk, Speech & Language 101 7 Comments

I recently posed this question on my Facebook page: If you could give ONE recommendation/ piece of advice to another parent about speech/language development, what would it be? (This can be from SLP to a parent or parent to a parent) The answers were AWESOME! I loved how we had a good mix of parent-to-parent and […]

How to Help Your Child Talk: Becoming an Interpreter

February 17, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: How to Help Your Child Talk Leave a Comment

Welcome to my How to Help Your Child Talk series. These posts are intended to give you simple tips to help you work with your child so YOU can be your child’s best “speech therapist.” You may want to try out a new tip/strategy for a week or so and then when you feel like you’ve “got […]

Food for Thought Friday

February 14, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: Food for Thought Fridays Leave a Comment

TGIF! It has been a looooong week around here. Sick baby =no sleep for mommy. Good thing he is cute, right? I can’t believe he is 6 months old already! So this is a quick post, sharing some goodies from around the net I have found the last couple weeks! If you are new to […]

How to Help Your Child Talk: Follow Your Child’s Lead

February 11, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: How to Help Your Child Talk 2 Comments

Welcome to my How to Help Your Child Talk series. These posts are intended to give you simple tips to help you work with your child so YOU can be your child’s best “speech therapist.” You may want to try out a new tip/strategy for a week or so and then when you feel like you’ve “got […]

10 Awesome Reasons Being a Speech Pathologist ROCKS! {Friendship Circle Post}

February 3, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: The Friendship Circle Blog, What is an SLP Leave a Comment

I was over at the Friendship Circle Special Needs Blog last week sharing with you why I love being an SLP. It’s already been shared quite a bit on social media (like over 38,000 times!)…please check it out and let me know what you think. Anything you would add? Feel free to leave me a comment […]

Food For Thought Friday

January 31, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: Food for Thought Fridays 4 Comments

Do you ever look back at your week and think Where the hell did the time go??? That is what I am thinking this Thursday afternoon as I finish up this post. So many things I thought I would get to, and didn’t. Oh well, there’s next week, right? This week on Food for Thought Friday, […]

You Can Do EVERYTHING Right and Still Have a Child with Special Needs

January 30, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: Family Life, How to Help Your Child Talk, Uncategorized 15 Comments

I want to talk a little bit today about guilt. You know…mommy (or daddy) guilt that parents of children with special needs (developmental or medical) carry on their shoulders because of their child’s needs. The guilt and the constant “what if’s” are oh-so common. Recently, I took my middle son Ev, age three, into our […]

Food for Thought Friday

January 24, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: Food for Thought Fridays, Parenting 3 Comments

It’s Friday, and this week I have some food for thought on preschool, raising leaders, how to deal with angry children, and tips on getting the kids on your life to listen. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments on these posts! Just a little picture from our winter break in the little snow […]

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