It's fun to find a quality toy that is easy and fun to make and then use for pretend play. These dinosaurs made with "Dino Constructables" can...
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“Silly Situations” by Discovery Bay Games Wins PAL Award
Kids love to giggle at silly situations, so add to that the challenge of solving a problem using three unrelated object cards to tell your story....
Summer Lesson for Speech Therapy
As summer rolls in, and we are thinking about the beach, kids in speech therapy gain vocabulary and learn concepts from clever picture books about...
Articulation Activities for Speech Therapy
Today I was working on articulation (k,g) with my 4 year-old friend who loves pirates. After he did his "set up" as he called it--he set up a scene...
Speech Therapy Homework
Yesterday I blogged about taking speech therapy outside at this time of year and expanding a child's vocabulary and experience using language. I...
Spring Apraxia Speech Therapy Outside
Now that the weather has warmed up--we hope--I have started to take my speech therapy outside. Some of my favorite successes in doing therapy have...
Chuggington Traintastic Cargo
Congratulations to a new PAL Award winner! It's hard to find enriching games for preschoolers where the fun factor prevails. Here's yet another...
What Makes a Good Language Toy?
When your baby arrives, it’s time to play. Since newborn babies prefer a variety of shapes, curves, angles and contrasts in light and dark, your...
Spring Speech Therapy Lessons, Poetry
Kids l love water so a story about splashing in puddles is the perfect spring book for a speech therapy lesson. Puddles, by Jonathan London is all...
Illustrations Encourage Children’s Language Development
I love art and use it frequently in language therapy. After reading a picture book, I will often ask a question and have a child illustrate his...
Child Apraxia Speech Therapy Progress
Today was a good day. I feel like we turned a corner with little 2 year-old Travis who is diagnosed with child apraxia of speech. I was the first...
Speech Therapy Language Lessons from Picture Books
I love finding great picture books to teach language lessons. I have been using "My Dog Lyle "by Goldfinger for several goals with children in...
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