6-8 year-olds Archives - Page 8 of 41

5 Lessons Learned From Playing Board Games

| 10 and up, 12 years and up, 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Games, Language, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

The holidays say family time and as the snow falls and forces us inside by the fire, we have a perfect time to pull out a favorite board game to...

FREE uKloo app Gives the Gift of Reading

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Reading

Who doesn't like a free gift? Grandparents, parents, teachers and therapists listen up for a free app that will put the thrill in learning to read,...

Challenging Behaviors in Speech Therapy Within A Child’s Home

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

I have been thinking a lot about how to address several situations I found myself in lately as I entered a home for the first time to meet a family...

Halloween Spider Fun in Speech Therapy

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Articulation, Autism, Language, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Okay, spiders aren't my favorite bug, but as long as they are cute in a book, I am okay with them. Let's not get into snakes though! Today I brought...

Heads Up App Great for Speech Therapy

| 10 and up, 12 years and up, 14 years and up, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Apps, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

I never know where I am going to get a new idea for speech therapy. Yesterday, my cousin Martha came by with her two grandchildren, ages 7 and 5,...

Play Your Way Back To School

| 10 and up, 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Elementary School, Language, Preschool, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, writing

Anticipating the start of a new school year is both exciting and daunting. As a parent and school speech therapist, I always felt the promise of a...

Lessons in Writing from “Little Red Writing” by Joan Holub and Melissa Sweet

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Books, Elementary School Age, Language, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, writing

With everyone anticipating the start of school, teachers and therapists are gathering new ideas to teach their lessons. I have worked within...

Co-Creator of Game, Twister, Died

| 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Games

For some reason I find the obituaries in the New York Times fascinating. This week we learned that Chuck Foley, the co-creator of the game Twister,...