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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0812, 2014

Speech with simple magnet clips

      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

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Minimal pair sort
2907, 2014

Minimal pair sort

I have a little guy in therapy right now who has a difficult time with /st/ blends.  He consistently drops the /s/ in this blend only.  To bring awareness to what he saying, SLP’s many times employ what is referred to as “minimal pair” therapy. Minimal pairs are two words that are similar except for one sound.  Many times, minimal pairs rhyme if the only sound changed occurs at the

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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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Summer speech with a little sidewalk chalk
2706, 2014

Summer speech with a little sidewalk chalk

Looking for a fun way to incorporate some speech practice into your summer schedule?  All you need is some sidewalk chalk and your kid! I picked some sound combos Ashlynn is currently working on in speech and drew them in the boxes of a hopscotch grid.  We then would throw a rock and whatever the rock landed on, we would hop to that picture and say the picture.  She was

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