Speech and Language Delay Archives - Page 5 of 13

Speech Lessons from Valeri Gorbachev Books

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

When I find a book I really like for using with my speech and language special needs kids, I usually see what else that author has written. My...

Summer Speech and Language Therapy Outside

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

Some kids work harder in a less structured setting, moving and learning as they go. Summer is a great opportunity to take these kids outside to...

Speech Therapy, Art, and Jackson Pollock Lesson Plans

| 8 years and up, Books, Elementary School Age, Language, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

I think speech therapy should always be fun but in the summer it should have an element of freedom, away from the classroom. I take kids outside and...

What’s New at Playonwords

| Apraxia, Articulation, Autism, Birth-3 year-olds, Games, Language, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Here is a copy of my newsletter in case you aren't on the distribution list: Happy Summer and welcome to the heat wave! Normally we talk a lot about...

Play-Doh Uses in Speech Therapy and Play

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

Once again, I saw the advantages of having a ittle Play-doh on hand. One of my more creative players, Duncan, was setting up his Playmobil boat, van...

Typical Peers Helpful to Children with Autism in Speech Therapy

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Autism, Books, Elementary School Age, Preschool, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

This is part two of my blog about the advantages of having a typical peer join your speech therapy session. Yesterday I talked about the impact a...

Autistic Kids and Typical Peers for Play in Speech Therapy

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Autism, Elementary School Age, play, Preschool, Speech and Language Delay, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

It is well known that providing typical peers for play with children on the autism spectrum is helpful as they learn from models of appropriate...

Conversation in Pretend Play

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

When parents and therapists model conversation in pretend play, kids start to imitate them and learn to take turns in conversation with their little...

Building Flexible Play with Children on the Autism Spectrum

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

One of the challenges of working with children on the autism spectrum is to model, encourage and teach flexible play. Children with ASD tend to get...