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Five Playful Ways to Work on Listening and Following Directions

February 12, 2018 by Katie Filed Under: How to Help Your Child Talk, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Playful Ways to.....Series, Therapy Ideas and Activities 31 Comments

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 many parents would benefit from this information- so I decided to make this into a post. There are many FUN ways that you can work […]

How to Help Your Child Talk: Imitation & Turn Taking

April 29, 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 […]

How to Help Your Child Talk: The eBook {Help the Young Children in Your Life Communicate While Helping a Great Cause}

April 23, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: How to Help Your Child Talk, Juvenile Arthritis 1 Comment

Are you a parent, caregiver, or teacher looking for ways to help a young child talk? Are you a speech pathologist looking for resources to share with your clients on early speech and language development?  Would you like to learn more about how to help young children communicate while helping a great cause?  If so, […]

How To Help Your Child Talk: Providing Opportunities for Communication in Play

April 18, 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 […]

How to Help Your Child Talk: Providing Opportunities for Communication in Daily Activities

April 12, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: How to Help Your Child Talk 1 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 […]

Literacy Starts With Language: 20 Tips for Creating a Language Rich Environment for Your Toddler {I Can Teach My Child}

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

Did you know that a child’s language skills are a strong predictor of later literacy skills? Children with strong language skills in the preschool and early elementary years tend to have stronger literacy skills later on. Literacy development is so much more than the ABC’s: Literacy starts with language! Today, I am over at I […]

How to Help Your Child Talk: Expanding Your Child’s Words

March 31, 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 to Help Your Child Talk: Become a Narrator

March 12, 2014 by Katie Filed Under: How to Help Your Child Talk 1 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 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 […]

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