Being a thrift store mama, I find many great games and fun activities I can use at home with my son as well as in therapy. Right before Christmas (last year) I found Hungry Hungry Hippos for a few bucks! That’s right folks. It normally retails around $21.99 and I bought it for less than […]
Picture courtesy of: Amazon.com(click on picture to take you to the link) Through a FB thread several months ago, it was recommended to me to look into James MacDonald and Barabara Mitchell’s work in the SLP field. I didn’t know much about them so I went to my favorite source when searching for books…Amazon! There […]
Today I’ll be sharing simple ways in which I incorporate literacy in play therapy for non-readers (and early readers). This is part 3 of my literacy series. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here. Enjoy! 1. Restaurant Menus: Playing restaurant is so much fun for our PK kiddos; taking turns being the […]
This post was inspired by a Facebook thread I read months ago. A parent was expressing frustration and concern over the fact that her child’s school SLP and outside SLP (not sure if it was a private practice or hospital based SLP) were not targeting the same goals and did not agree upon a diagnosis. […]
It has recently come to my attention that there are still SLPs out there relying so heavily on the developmental model of articulation that they do not even “entertain” the thought of working on certain sounds at certain ages. It’s as though, those particular sounds are considered sounds that “don’t have to be targeted yet” […]
This post is about my personal preferences as a speech-language pathologist when counseling parents. It has nothing to do with research or evidence-based practice. It has EVERYTHING to do with my professional experience with counseling parents over the years. So feel free to read with an open mind and reach your own conclusions. Nonverbal vs. Prelinguistic […]
Last week we talked about what play routines are and how I choose the activities/toys to create a play routine (you can find that post here). This week we will discuss what a play routine looks like and how I implement play routines. Firstly let’s begin with an example of what a play routine looks […]
The use of routines is one of the simplest ways an adult (parent/caregiver/therapist/educator, etc.) can facilitate language growth in young children. This is especially true for children between 1-3 years of age (or children functioning between this developmental age range). When speaking about routines, most often we think of “steps” to completing an act (e.g. […]
It’s Christmas time! Today is Christmas Eve and I am planning on spending the next two weeks focused on my family. This means I will be taking a two week break from my Tip Tuesday and Freebie Friday posts. I hope you too will be enjoying some family time over your Christmas break as […]
I NEVER provide articulation therapy without using hand cues for target sounds. To me hand cues are as important as a mirror. What are hand cues? Hand cues are a visual cuing system characterized by individual hand movements that represent various sounds. The hand movements are made simultaneously with the production of target sound(s). […]
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