When we are talking about young children’s speech and language skills, it is important to think of the child in terms of the skills the child currently has (rather than chronological age) so that interventions can be best built upon these skills. Knowing what stage of communication your child is currently in also [...]
What is communication? A while back, I wrote a post about the Difference between Speech & Language. In that post I touched on communication as well, and today I am going to expand on that post because understanding the difference between speech and language and knowing what communication is is part of the foundation one [...]
Tuesday we talked about questions. You can read that post HERE if you didn’t already read it. At the end, I shared this interaction with you all between a Mom and her son Billy. You can review it here: MOM: Billy, what color is this? Billy: NO ANSWER (he doesn’t know) MOM: Billy, [...]
It is such an exciting time when your child starts to talk! So exciting that often times we can find ourselves doing whatever we can to get them to do it more. This is especially true if your child has been a late or delayed talker. And what gets people to talk more than [...]
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Can you believe it is 2013?? I cannot believe it!!! 2012 was a great year for my family, and for this blog. I FINALLY am feeling like I am starting to “find my voice” so to speak and I have “met” and gotten to know so many amazing people as [...]
Then you need to head over to Toddler Approved right now and check out my guest post today! Today I am sharing 5 tips to help your toddler learn language and communicate. Some of them may seem obvious but ask yourself this: Are you doing them everyday? I want to hear! Head on [...]
I recently got an email from a parent who was wondering how she could work on her son’s listening skills. As I was responding to her email I realized that I should do a post on this! There are many FUN ways that you can work on your child’s listening skills and I [...]
Welcome to the final of my Top Toys series! To read more about why I am doing this series, please check out Part One HERE. You can also check out part two HERE and part three HERE. I am writing these posts to help parents pick good, quality toys for their infants, toddlers [...]
I’ve mentioned before that language is not learned in a bubble. When children have delays in language it isn’t the hour of week of speech therapy that is going to make the biggest impact but rather how the parents and caregivers of those children change the way they interact with the child to [...]
Welcome to part three of four of my Top Toys series! To read more about why I am doing this series, please check out Part One HERE. You can also check out part two HERE. I am writing these posts to help parents pick good, quality toys for their infants, toddlers and preschoolers [...]
Welcome to part two of four of my Top Toys series! To read more about why I am doing this series, please check out Part One Here. I am writing these posts to help parents pick good, quality toys for their infants, toddlers and preschoolers that can be used to help support speech [...]
As a speech pathologist, I am asked all the time by parents what toys I recommend they buy for their children to help expand their speech and language skills. When I became a mother, I became even more interested in children’s toys. So for the month of February I’ve decided to write a [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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