I have a LOVE-LOVE relationship with the “I Spy” book series. When they began publishing their toddler series AND began offering them at discounted rates on Scholastic Books, I wanted to kiss someone! “I Spy” books are SO GREAT for the younger population for many reasons: 1. Vocabulary development: Oh the things we can see […]
I LOVE books so much, this was a difficult blog to write. But here is a list of my Top 10 Early Language Learning Books (in no particular order(pictures in this blog are courtesy of Amazon.com unless otherwise specified)):1. Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle: I love using this book to introduce and teach […]
There is so much research out there that supports the need to “read” to and with your children over the summer months to ensure that they maintain their current reading level and can even aid in improving their reading skills even before that bus shows up at your doorstep in the fall. So my question […]
This is the last installment of my Nonverbal child series! Thanks so much to all of you who stuck with it this month and checked out my presentations. I hope they helped in some way. Please note that in this presentation a number of language facilitation techniques will be discussed. I have written about each […]
Here is the 3rd installment in my Nonverbal Child series, discussing how to create a treatment plan. Treatment plans in the academic environment versus private practice will undoubtedly be a different process. However, this presentation includes the basic way in which I create a treatment plan. Many times I find parents do not understand the […]
This is the second installment in my Nonverbal Child series. Remember this series focuses on the Nonverbal child under 5 years old with typical hearing and vision. With that said I have used the same techniques for older children with age-appropriate toys and activities. So some of these techniques can be generalized to other ages […]
I have been performing early childhood assessments for the last decade and particularly over the last 5 years have encountered more nonverbal children between the ages of 3-5 than I have in my previous 5 years of therapy. I wonder if there is a trend in the severity of disabilities we are able to diagnose […]
Last week I talked about the steps I use to teach PK kiddos how to understand analogies by focusing on understanding relationships between objects. Today I’d like to just write the several ideas I have done with PK kiddos that have worked to teach them how to understand categories of objects! If you have other […]
Boarder: From the Pond @ http://frompond.blogspot.com When I first started working with preschoolers I thought it was bit crazy to think of teaching analogies to 4 year olds. But after thinking about it, I realized that analogies are just about understanding relationships between two objects. So here are my tried and true steps to teaching […]
This is Part 2 of a previous post focusing on training slow speech rate. Find Part 1 here.When working on teaching a slow rate of speech, the 3rd and final step to making slow rate a habit, is for a child to self-monitor his/her own speech rate. I call this skill “Listening to myself”. I do […]
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