8 years and up Archives - Page 5 of 24

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...

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...

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,...

Speech Therapy For Apraxia, NACD Home Speech Therapist App Review

| 10 and up, 12 years and up, 14 years and up, 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Apps, Apraxia, Birth-3 year-olds, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Apraxia therapy can be challenging as it requires frequent and intensive treatment, involving repetition of sounds and syllables in a systematic...

Fairfield Library Encouraging Kids to Dig Into Summer Reading

| 10 and up, 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Books, Reading

You know I love my public library. I am always discovering new offerings besides great books there. I took one of my students to our Fairfield...

Getting Kids To Read Over the Summer

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

I was on vacation at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin and visited one of my favorite vintage shops, "Three Gables Consignment," partly because they have a...

Break Out Summer Learning With a MoonScope, Microscope or AquaScope

| 8 years and up, Language, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Thanks to Bob Artemenko for today's guest blog. Bob is the other half of our PAL Award team, CMO, as well as a pilot and star gazer. Of all the...

Great Apps For Speech Therapy: Rainbow Sentences by Mobile Education Store

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

I want to share my latest experience with another outstanding app from Mobile Education Store, "Rainbow Sentences," designed to help students create...

Lesson Plans for Screen-Free Week: Pretend, Play, Talk

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

Turn off the TV? Set aside the iPad? Give up video games? That’s just what millions of people will be doing April 29-May 5 as they turn off screens...