Language development 2/2

Nov 22, 20191 min read

Fun Friday Activity: Facial Imitation Games

Facial imitation games are an exciting way to boost your child's ability to focus on a face, along with joint attention and emotion...

Nov 8, 20191 min read

Fun Friday Activity: Dominoes!

This week, let's cooperate and problem solve together while we construct a fun dominoes track. I'll discuss a few important lessons...

Nov 1, 20191 min read

Fun Friday Activity: Visual Tracking Games

Visual tracking is an important skill for both communication development and reading. Help develop your child's ability to track a moving...

Sep 24, 20193 min read

More Words or Spontaneous Language? Where Should We Focus

As a speech-language pathologist, we love words. Long words, short words, rhyming words, minimal contrasting words, grammatically correct...

Sep 17, 20197 min read

Getting Started in Private Speech Therapy - What to Expect

Have you noticed your child isn't saying things like his friends on the playground? Does your child continue to point at what she wants,...

Apr 12, 20191 min read

Fun Friday Activity - Yellow Duck Craft

This week we are making yellow ducky puppets. You can grab our template for the duck body here.

Mar 27, 20193 min read

Playing the "Bad Guy" - Why it's Important to Let Your Kids be a Robber

Goblins, ghosts, monsters and thieves... a child's imagination can be a scary place. I mean, who would even want to live in such a world...

Mar 20, 20194 min read

The First Twelve Months - Expressively Speaking; The Importance of Vocal Play

(Expressive) language development comes in stages, as many of us know. These stages build upon the skills learned during previous ones,...

Feb 19, 20193 min read

Don't Let Your Kids Break the Rules- Negotiate Them

"But I don't want to clean my room!" Rules and expectations. We all had them growing up, whether we realized it or not. We still have...