ABC Song and “Happy Birthday Jace”

Two HUGE developments with Ashlynn popped out over the weekend! We celebrated my youngest’s 1st Birthday on Sunday. Six months ago, my daughter had to really focus on including all the sounds in syllables, so when it was my husband’s birthday, she could day “Happy Day” with cueing. Well, after the celebration ended and everyone had gone home, she went over to her brother and clear as day said “Happy

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Speech FlipBook App Review

Speech FlipBook App Review

Speech FlipBook by TACTUS Therapy is a versatile app more suited for use with older children or adults.  It is in a flip book format seen below. It has the option to flip each section of the word (onset, nucleus, and coda), or to flip the entire word. It contains literally every sound and consonant cluster found in words, allowing practice at the single syllable level.  It is completely customizable,

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“Ashlynn Happy….. Papa’s House”

“Ashlynn Happy….. Papa’s House”

 It’s no secret that my dad is the pushover.  Don’t get me wrong, he could lay down the law when he had to; but when it came to playing my dad is the person to sweet talk.  Ever since Ashlynn was a little baby, my dad would play ball with her.  It started out almost as a game of fetch, but each time she gets better and better.  After Jace

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Articulation Station App Review

Articulation Station App Review

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

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How to teach toddlers their colors, interesting article I found on pinterest.

How to teach toddlers their colors, interesting article I found on pinterest.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-johnny-name-colors On pinterest, I ran across this interesting article.  It basically says that children learn their colors faster by saying “the balloon is read” instead of “the red balloon.”  In English, we usually put the adjective before the noun, so our kiddos don’t get a lot of practice with learning it this way. I thought it was interesting from an SLP standpoint too though, because many language processing kiddos struggle

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Speech Stickers App for Apraxia Review

Speech Stickers App for Apraxia Review

Speech Stickers is the first app that I downloaded for Ashlynn (my daughter with apraxia) when she had first turned three.  I chose it because it was cheap, and said it was developed for children with apraxia.  The app is simple in design with not a lot of bells and whistles; however, my daughter loved practicing her speech with this app. The app is set up for kids in the

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