You may have noticed I have been doing a lot of reviews lately! I am finishing up all review requests I have had as I get ready to go out on maternity leave. Today, I am really excited to review a great book by fellow SLP Kimberly Scanlon called My Toddler Talks: Strategies and Activities […]
How to Help Your Child Talk: Listen With Your Eyes
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 to Help Your Child Talk: Get Down at His/Her Level and Make Eye Contact
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 […]
Top 10 Summer Activities to Encourage Your Toddler’s Speech Development {A Summer Challenge}
This week I am teaming up with some amazing bloggers brining you a series of Schools out: Top 10 Summer posts! You can check out the links at the bottom of this post for more information! Toddler’s learn language all day, every day from their morning diaper changes to breakfast, to play time, to book […]
How to Help Your Child Talk: Slow Down and Be Present
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 […]
What Type of Communicator is YOUR child? {With Tips on How You Can Help Build Their Speech & Language Skills}
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 helps YOU […]
What is Communication? {It is so Much More than Speech}
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 needs know […]
Questions: Why Less is More {Part Two}
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, what is […]
Questions: Why Less is More {Part One}
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 asking questions, […]
Best of 2012 at PWW365!
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 well as […]