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Speech Therapist as Consultant
Today I was called in to consult on a little 2 year-old girl who has been receiving services from a Birth-3 provider. I usually ask parents to have...
Flexible Lesson Plans for Articulation Therapy
As a speech therapist, we have to be flexible and follow the child's lead and interests even on the best planned day. Yesterday, I carried two...
Goodbye Halloween, Hello Christmas
Wow, I can hardly finish Halloween and the stores are pushing Christmas! I was downtown today and I was re-routed on the sidewalk because they were...
Letter to New York Times on Disney Refund for Baby Videos
It's been a week since the New York Times had a front page article on "No Einstein in The Crib? Get a Refund." I was so amazed at Disney's offer to...
Books on Slavery, Civil War, Language Lessons
I am working with a 5th grade student with a language disorder and she is studying the Civil War. I checked out a few books to use to work on her...
Halloween Books for Speech Therapy
My search for Halloween books that are simple, funny and have lots of language to discuss brought me to two more books that might be helpful to you....
Autism Games to Play
Recently, as I was looking on the internet for games to play with my kids on the autism spectrum, I came across autismgames.org, a wonderful site...
Disney Offers Refunds on Baby Einstein Videos
Wow. Can you believe it? Finally, at least an implied answer to our question that so many of us have been asking--where is the research to back up...
Stuttering Awareness Day is October 22
The Stuttering Foundation of America has provided a list of "Myths about Stuttering" that is so relevant for International Stuttering Awareness Day...
The Writing Menu, Assists Speech Therapy
Many of us speech therapists were trained to rehabilitate oral language skills and leave the written skills to the teacher or resource teacher. I...
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