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Practical Speech Therapy Activities for Home Practice June 25, 2014 by Heidi Hanks School’s out for summer! This sentence can bring parents both relief and a bit of anxiety at the same time. As a parent myself my goal is to not only survive the break, but to enjoy it, and maybe ...
As a Speech-Language Pathologist I am keenly aware of the positive impact exposing our children to a literacy-rich environment can have. It’s a great way to build receptive and expressive language skills as well as prepare our children for a life of literacy. Helping kids with Speech Sound ...
We’ve talked a lot about helping kids with articulation disorders here on Mommy Speech Therapy. I’ve shared myArticulation Screenerto help you identify the sounds kids are saying in error as well as anArticulation Goal Trackerto help select the sounds that need to be targeted and keep track...
Continue Reading Vowels are typically the first sounds that emerge from our precious little ones and most often not a concern. Starting around 2 months babies begin to “coo” making sounds in the back of their mouth like “ah-ah-ah” and “oh-oh-oh.” By 6 months they have progressed...
Download the speech sound development chart and process of articulation therapy handouts from Mommy Speech therapy.com
Many of you have been interested in how to stimulate more speech from your toddlers so I thought I would share a few tricks I use as a speech therapist. Most often children just need a little more incentive to get them talking so I like to use what is known to speech therapists as “...
, and any patterns we may see among the speech errors that were produced when setting our goals. After I have tested a student and determined what sounds the student needs to work on I simply write the sounds at the top my Articulation Goal Tracker sheet and I am ready to begin therapy...
I had an interesting experience last week. I was picking my kids up from my sister’s house when her in-laws pulled up with their children. When they got out of the car she introduced me as her sister speech therapist. She immediately began telling me how her, two year old, […] ...
Motivating kids to complete tasks in a timely manner can be a daily struggle. I know it is at my house. With the new school year fast approaching I am motivated to change that and I figured there may be more parents like me that feel the same way. I'm ex