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Speech and Language Delay

Importance of Working with Preschoolers in Their Classroom

| Preschool, Preschool Class, Speech and Language Delay, Speech Therapy, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Many times I ask parents if I can have a speech therapy session in their child's preschool class that week so that I can confer with the teacher and...

Great New Picture Books About Dragons, Beach and Twins

| 3-6 year-olds, Birth-3 year-olds, Book Review, Books, Elementary School, Elementary School Age, Language, Preschool, Preschool Class, Reading, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Strategies to Enhance Language, writing

One of my favorite things to do is hang out in a neighborhood book store and check out the new picture books. As a matter of fact, when my husband...

Speech Teletherapy vs. Traditional Speech Therapy

| Speech and Language Delay, Speech Therapy, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

After more than 40 years practicing in my field of speech language pathology, I am still energized by my role in helping my clients as well as my...

Homeschooling a Child with Special Needs: The Pros and Cons

| 12 years and up, 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Elementary School, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Strategies to Enhance Language

From time to time I like to feature guest posts by either Speech language pathologists or those in other fields working to positively impact kids...

Speech-Language Impairments Rank #1 in Kids 3-5 (IDEA)

| 3-6 year-olds, Birth-3 year-olds, Language, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Toys

ASHA Leader Magazine is a favorite of mine. I was just reading the April issue and turning down the corners on several fantastic, relevant articles....

Bring Your Beauty Kit to Speech Therapy for Fun

| 3-6 year-olds, Birth-3 year-olds, Language, Preschool, Preschool Class, Speech and Language Delay, Speech Therapy, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

We have been reading "Ruby's Beauty Shop" by Rosemary Wells for several sessions with a little boy on the autism spectrum. He loves the book, as...

Mixing Puzzles and Playdoh in Speech Therapy Activities

| Birth-3 year-olds, Elementary School Age, Language, play, Preschool, Speech and Language Delay, Speech Therapy, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Everyone has challenging preschoolers to work with who go through your therapy bag of activities quickly and you scratch your head trying to find...

Decorating for St. Patrick’s Day

| Games, Language, play, Speech and Language Delay, Speech Therapy, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Once again, I started my therapy session and it took off in a new direction. I had been to the grocery story before work and passed a grocery cart...

A Week of Firsts in Speech Therapy

| Articulation, Games, Language, play, Speech and Language Delay, Speech Therapy, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

As I look back at my week, I had several "firsts" as I went from home to home doing speech therapy. Yesterday, a 6 year-old I saw for the first time...