Speech and Language Delay Archives

Great New Picture Books About Dragons, Beach and Twins

| 3-6 year-olds, Birth-3 year-olds, Book Review, Books, Elementary School, Elementary School Age, Language, Preschool, Preschool Class, Reading, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Strategies to Enhance Language, writing

One of my favorite things to do is hang out in a neighborhood book store and check out the new picture books. As a matter of fact, when my husband...

Speech Teletherapy vs. Traditional Speech Therapy

| Speech and Language Delay, Speech Therapy, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

After more than 40 years practicing in my field of speech language pathology, I am still energized by my role in helping my clients as well as my...

Homeschooling a Child with Special Needs: The Pros and Cons

| 12 years and up, 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Elementary School, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Strategies to Enhance Language

From time to time I like to feature guest posts by either Speech language pathologists or those in other fields working to positively impact kids...

Speech-Language Impairments Rank #1 in Kids 3-5 (IDEA)

| 3-6 year-olds, Birth-3 year-olds, Language, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Toys

ASHA Leader Magazine is a favorite of mine. I was just reading the April issue and turning down the corners on several fantastic, relevant articles....

Make Sure to Visit Your Student in Their Preschool Class

| 3-6 year-olds, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Toddler

When I'm working with preschoolers, I often mention to the parents that after their child gets "settled" in therapy, it would be helpful for me to...

Using Oral Motor Techniques in Articulation and Phonological Therapy

| Articulation, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

I have enjoyed reading, learning and sharing practical knowledge to use in speech therapy from Pam Marshalla's book on Articulation Carryover and am...

Let’s Teach “She” and “He”

| 3-6 year-olds, Language, Preschool, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

More on yesterday's topic of teaching personal pronouns to preschoolers. I had a session today with my little girl who is also working on he/she and...

How Do You Teach Pronouns to a Preschooler?

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

As you know, I enjoyed speaking to masters students in speech pathology at Northwestern University about a week ago. I really like to share ideas on...

Crack the Books “Seashores to Sea Floors” Review and Free Giveaway

| 10 and up, 12 years and up, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Apps, Books, Language, Speech and Language Delay

Mobile Education Store has been a treasure chest of great apps for learning language from Conversation Builder and Rainbow Sentences to Tense...

Articulation Carryover Techniques

| Articulation, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

I wanted to report on another articulation carryover technique I mentioned in an earlier blog. I have some favorite little foam shapes that I use as...