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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...
For a moment I want you to imagine (though this may not be too far off from reality for some) that you are the parent of a young child whose speech is severely unintelligible. People unfamiliar with your child cannot understand him or her when they attempt to speak, and sometimes even y...
emotional patterns and working to change them. Often people will say to me ‘I have done a lot of talk therapy and this helped me understand how the patterns I have developed from my past. Now I need tools for changing them.’ And they find that chakra work is a powerful way of ...
Colette had weekly PT, OT and eventually speech therapy. She had frequent overnight hospital stays to adjust medication any time we saw seizure activity. There were eye appointments every 3 months because her seizure control medication endangered her vision. We drove to Houston every three months ...
When I was being treated way back in the day for my disordered eating, I was forced to go to intensive outpatient therapy and see a nutritionist. I hated it because I was a stubborn pain in the ass and thought I knew better than all of those people. Let’s see if I have changed ...
We had a dental checkup about a month ago and sure enough, Lucas had two loose teeth. It just doesn’t seem possible. The twins were ornery after speech therapy today and needed to take a nap. They were fighting that idea and sure enough, “Mommy, there’s something in my mouth.”...
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
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 kn