Strategies to promote speech and language in the pre-verbal or minimally verbal child with Apraxia
0901, 2015

Strategies to promote speech and language in the pre-verbal or minimally verbal child with Apraxia

The great thing about speech and language, is that it a task that can be worked on in any activity.  Familiar routines in the home provide the perfect platform for encouraging speech and language, because this “routinized language” is predictable and context based. A fellow SLP and mommy of apraxia, Kim from Landonjourney.blogspot.com and I teamed up for Part I in my series of parent strategies to promote speech at

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Initial ‘T’ tic-tac-toe
1608, 2014

Initial ‘T’ tic-tac-toe

One thing I’ve found, is that as an SLP, finding materials for apraxia can be challenging.  This is mostly due in part to the fact that syllable shape and complexity matter more for apraxia than they do for other speech sound disorders. For example, if you were working on the ‘T’ sound and opened a typical articulation workbook, it wouldn’t be uncommon to see a variety of single syllable and

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Speech & Language with puzzles
2407, 2014

Speech & Language with puzzles

Sorting is an important foundational skill that sets up the building blocks for logical thinking and organizing.  These skills are necessary for later educational development in math (i.e. order of operations, geometry), reading (identifying main idea and relevant details), and writing (developing a topic sentence and organzing relevant details). Most parents have simple puzzles like this at home.  When my daughter was two, I held the pieces and gave her

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Speech and Language with Post it Notes
1607, 2014

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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Baking with speech and language
1206, 2014

Baking with speech and language

Parents are always looking for ways to incorporate speech and language activities at home.  Whether it is to stimulate a typically developing child’s vocabulary and language, or to help a speech or language delayed child; baking is great and fun way to work on speech and language. The first and most important rule before you start, is you have to accept the fact that your toddler will make a mess,

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January book of the month: The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
1701, 2014

January book of the month: The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

Winter is in full swing, and there is no shortage of books that talk about winter, snow, and winter clothing vocabulary. Also, the preschool in my district has winter clothing vocabulary on as part of the curriculum, so it’s perfect! The book is a repetitive, rebus style book that is great for practicing vocabulary, early reading skills, sequencing, and as always speech! I started with some cutouts from the story

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