Speech and Language with Post it Notes

Speech and Language with Post it Notes

My daughter loves Post it Notes.  LOVES them.  She loves writing some small scribble on them and then proudly sticking them up around the house to put on display. Today we drew pictures that included her target sounds to work on speech, but we also drew shapes to work on our pre-writing strokes for OT. Based on the response from my facebook post, my kid’s not alone in loving them!

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Check out my Q & A with “Trust Me, I’m a Mom: Let’s Talk Tuesday!

Check out my Q & A with “Trust Me, I’m a Mom: Let’s Talk Tuesday!

Today I’m so excited to be a guest blogger on Trust me, I’m a Mom: Let’s Talk Tuesday.  Please check it out! Trust Me, I’m a Mom: Let’s Talk Tuesday – Q&A With An SLP & Mommy of Ap…: ‘Let’s Talk Tuesday’ is a bi-weekly post series with ideas on how you can help your child of any ability, but especially those with Apraxia.

“Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out.  I want to see, I want to see you be brave.”

“Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out. I want to see, I want to see you be brave.”

I heard a new Sara Bareilles song the other day.  I love music, but I really felt like this song was written for A.  It’s been a struggle to get her words out.  Even now, the other day at the park she was talking to a little girl appropriately saying ‘come on” and “let’s go again!”  It sounded more like, “tum on!” and “yet do adain” but she was DOING

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Ashlynn play boats with daddy.

Ashlynn play boats with daddy.

She only had a handful of word approximations, and her favorite thing to say was “a dah.” and “hi.”  I’ve learned from my parent support group that most kids with apraxia have a go to sound that they use for everything, and “a dah” was Ashlynn’s.