Articulation Station is a comprehensive articulation app that I use quite a bit in therapy. You can choose to purchase each consonant deck separately to save on cost. As you can see from this screen shot, I haven’t purchased all of the sounds myself; however, I did purchase ‘l’ ‘r’ and ‘s’ because those decks also contain blends, which I do use a lot in therapy.I chose ‘P’ for the
There is no easy way to “break-up” with an SLP, but I made the decision to discontinue private services through the SLP that was seeing Ashlynn. A lot of parents wonder what is the best way, and I don’t think there is a right or wrong way. I personally just wrote an email and said I was switching her to my mentor. I am very appreciative of all that she did;
So, I went back to work this past month. As I was going through my new caseload and reviewing files, I came across a boy I’ll call Ben. Ben was a nonverbal Kindergarten student in the Spanish classroom with above average intelligence. Ben had suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech. The SLP who was substituting for me, wrote me an email saying, “he has no motivation or desire to communicate right
It’s no secret that my daughter has a short attention span. I always worry of course since I’m her mom that it might be more serious than just the average toddler one minute attention span; however, today her school SLP expressed some concern as well. She asked me to come in next Wednesday to discuss possible strategies for keeping her on task in a group setting. She said that taking
Last night, my husband came home with chicken fingers for dinner. Ashlynn kept asking for some, but I told her no because she has always refused to eat meat. I’m not sure if it was the texture, because as a baby she ate it when I puréed it with vegetables, and she would eat mushy chicken nuggets, but that’s about it. I realize now, many of her picky eating habits
When I held my baby, and even when she was in utero, I had visions and dreams of her being this incredibly verbose child with a large vocabulary. In fact, I dreamed she would be like me. The first few months brought all the regular milestones: tracking with her eyes, smiles, giggles, and even rolling over. However, she did have a case of very pointy toes. So pointy in fact,