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Happy Easter With Jan Brett’s “The Easter Egg”

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

Happy Easter and Passover to all! The rain has cancelled our Easter egg hunt but that means we have had a morning reading books from Chima and Lego...

uKloo Riddle Edition Treasure Hunt Game Great For Fun Reading Practice

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

I've been visiting my grandchildren this week and several of them are learning to read. It is like magic to watch them suddenly be able to read...

Encouraging Early Readers Over the Summer

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

We just returned from a trip to Barnes and Noble with 3 of our grandchildren and we had our usual fun outing reading new and classic picture books...

Articulation Therapy When You Forget Your Word Lists

| 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Articulation, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Today was one of those days when I was packing up so many items for each child I was seeing in the afternoon that I forgot my iPad or word lists for...

$Teaching Math Vocabulary with New “Math Explosion” by The Young Scientists Club$

Teaching Math Vocabulary with New “Math Explosion” by The Young Scientists Club

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

When was the last time you used a "Math" game to teach language? How about today? I had a great time with first graders who I am pre-teaching...

Bringing Science Into Speech Therapy

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

STEM is hot right now as we put the spotlight on science, technology, engineering and math. What is exciting to me is that language is right in the...

Best New Games for Speech Therapy

| 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

Wow I realized I was a little quiet in the blogging area last week as I was buried in reviewing new toys and games for the PAL Award. It was...

Inviting a Friend to Speech Therapy

| 3-6 year-olds, Articulation, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

I am always trying to make therapy more fun for kids as I discover what they like as far as toys, games or arts and crafts. Some kids will work on...

“Too Much Glue” by Lefebvre Provides Language Lessons in Speech Therapy

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

As a speech therapist I find that just about any activity involving glue is fun for kids! The same apparently holds true for a book about "Too Much...

My Friend Huggles Dolls Start the Conversation About Values

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

One of the best parts about going to the Toy Fair in New York City is finding fun surprises--by which I mean new companies with a story to tell. My...

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...