Speech therapy for apraxia requires a motor based treatment approach that works up through a hierarchy of syllable shapes with lots of repetition, repetition, repetition. Unfortunately, repeating the same syllable shapes is limiting and many times boring. I decided to create some BINGO game sheets that can be used, starting with the CV syllable shape. Look for more to come if you’re interested! CV BINGO
I recently read a blog article about not buying into speech and language milestones. The writer asserts: “Because here’s what I think of traditional milestones: f*ck them…………My baby will do that when she’s ready. This is not the Olympics, people.”She went onto explain that parents seem to make milestones into some sort of competition, and she doesn’t want to buy into that. I get her point probably even more poignantly that she
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!
These words are cherished by any parent. These words are eagerly anticipated. When you have a child with a speech delay, the eager anticipation eventually gives way to desperation, and maybe, (though hopefully not) apathy. Ashlynn has been able to say “I love you” for awhile now. Once she really got good at imitating, we had her imitate it every time we told her goodnight and tucked her into bed.
This is the score I knew would be low, but still feels like a punch to the stomach when I see it in black and white. Why is it so hard to see it in black in white?? I knew it would be low. I KNEW it would be low. The OT is my co-worker and friend. She asked me if she could go over the report with me before
The other night I was reading this book to Ashlynn. If you’re not familiar with the “David” books, they center around the main character David who is mischievous and frequently getting into trouble. These books are great for early print awareness! As you can see, the print is larger and is written as though a child wrote it. Ashlynn kept pointing out all the capital letters she recognized from
