
Why am I always so tired?? I’m sure you’ve all noticed that I’ve slowed down on the blog big time in the last several weeks. You all know that 2013 has been a CRAZY busy year for us with selling and buying homes, packing, moving, and now the daunting task of UNPACKING all [...]

When I was working in the schools, I sometimes got pretty bored working at the table with my students. Let’s be honest..how many of us love to be sitting on one place for long periods of time having to use a LOT of brain power? Not me….and not my students. And my [...]

Disclaimer: The items reviewed in this post were supplied to me by the great people at The Gruffalo for me to review and keep at no cost. The opinions and thoughts are mine alone. This post contains affiliate links. Last week I shared some fun activities we did to go along with The Gruffalo. Today [...]

This month for the Virtual Book Club for Kids, we are spotlighting Julia Donaldson. Julia is a British author whose books include The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child and one of our favorite books around here, Room on the Broom. Although she is best-known for her picture books, Julia also writes longer novels, plays [...]

I am very very very slowly unpacking our new home. It is getting there but I am looking forward to getting back into blogging! Today, I wanted to share with you a few Speech & Language Activities for Easter! Just click on the image below to take you to the post! [...]

Hello hello hello! I am writing this from my couch as I deal with tummy issues when I SHOULD be packing. Yeah, not great timing to have a stomach bug-type-thing. SIGH Anyway, I am about to go slowly pack up more things for our move this weekend, but I wanted to drop you [...]

Well..this is crunch week people. We move onto our new home this coming weekend and I need to pack this house up! That means…my posts may be a little light the next couple weeks. In the mean time….I know St. Patrick’s day is JUST around the corner! So I have gathered up over [...]

Fellow SLPs, first I want to thank those of you who have been participating in my Eliciting Sounds Surveys! I know you are all very busy and have heavy caseloads and IEP meetings and observations and SSTs and so on….so thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to help out [...]

Welcome to the February Virtual Book Club! This month our spotlight author is the great Dr. Seuss! I went back and forth on which book to use, so we went to the bookstore and I came across a book I had been wanting to try with my own daughter. As we started reading [...]

Happy Saturday! I am really excited to be over at Speech Room News today, sharing some thoughts on involving parents in therapy. If you couldn’t tell from my blog posts, I am really passionate about educating and involving parents in the treatment of their children’s speech and language delays. I know, however, how [...]

Welcome to the LAST Tips for Eliciting Speech Sounds Survey! If you are new here and you are a fellow SLP, you can read the first post HERE for more information on this series of posts. I am SUPER excited to now start compiling all the amazing tips you have all been leaving [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to the second part of my little Why I Blog & How You Can Share it posts. Last week, I shared with you all Why I Blog & What it Takes to give you all a little insight into how much work and time goes into this blog. Now that you all (hopefully) have [...]

Welcome to the actual second to the last survey on Tips for Eliciting Speech sounds for speech pathologists. Ha. Last week I said THAT was the second to the last one…I lied
This survey is REALLY the second to the last one, the last one will be coming either this Friday or [...]

Ok, here is the second to the last Tips on Eliciting Speech Sounds Survey! Today we have a survey for the “sh” “zh” “ch” and “dz” sounds. For more information on these surveys, please read THIS POST. And be sure to take the time to fill out the other surveys as well…links are [...]
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Welcome! I'm Katie- a mama to two littles and a pediatric speech language pathologist. You'll find all kinds of goodies here about speech and language development and tips to help expand speech and language skills in children! I hope you enjoy your stay and learn a little along the way. Popular
- Top Toys & How They Can Support Speech & Language Development (Part One)
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- Want My 5 Tips to Help Your Toddler’s Speech and Language Development?
- My Tricks to Teaching the /r/ Sound
- Top Toys & How They Can Support Speech & Language Development (Part Two)
- Your Child’s Speech & Language Development: Birth to 5
- Your Child’s Speech & Language: Birth to 6 Months
- Articulation Development: What’s normal? {& What Isn’t}
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