I’m so honored and excited to have Dr. Kathy Jakielski, Ph.D., CCC-SLP with me today! I met Dr. Jakielski at the CASANA Intensive Training Institute, as she was one of the instructors. The honor is all mine, Laura. Thank you for your interest in my work! Kathy, I remember vividly this moment at the end of the training, where we all sat around a big conference table, and you gave
I was finally able to make a new game for my kiddos with enough time to spare for St. Patrick’s Day! This game follows the same idea as my other repetitive games. Kids have a game board, in this case, a black pot: The kids draw a card from the card deck. If the card contains a shamrock with gold coins, the child collects the amount of coins
I decided since my Spooky SpiderWeb game was so popular, I’d make another one for my kids with a winter snow theme. I go back to work tomorrow and I’m excited to play this with the kids. You start with printing out the snowman boards. Glue onto a manila envelope or cereal box and cut out the mouth. Then cut out the game cards and snow balls. Cutting
If your child has a speech delay, your SLP will most likely tell you that you need to create opportunities so your child HAS to communicate to you what he/she wants. I found these cheap magnet clips for the fridge at the dollar store! You can take pictures of items in your fridge, and then clip them to the outside. Depending on your child’s level, you can
My kiddos love using BINGO daubers to for any activity. The ones at Michael’s are the best as they are washable! It’s great for getting repetitive practice for speech targets! Then we roll the dice and practice saying our target words the number of times on the dice while dobbing the board. Give a board to each player, and whomever fills it up first wins!
Two years ago, I wrote a post entitled November book of the month. At that time Ashlynn was just starting to imitate really well, and I used this repetitive book with her to have her work on the CV shape “pie.” Fast forward two years and here we are. Ashlynn can now say most of the Thanksgiving items in this book, she just has a hard time with word recall and