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Strategies to Help Your Child Talk: Parallel and Self Talk
Start talking to your baby at birth (or before!) Children learn language from hearing it, and they start this process basically at birth (although some would argue that they begin even BEFORE birth,...
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Strategies to Help Your Child Talk: Using Expansions and Extensions
As I explained in my last post, children learn language by hearing it over and over. I explained in that post all about using the strategies of Self Talk, Parallel Talk and Descriptions to help teach...
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Strategies to Help Your Child Talk: Commenting and Asking Questions
In my last two posts on Strategies to Help Your Child to Talk (that you can read HERE and HERE), I explained the strategies of self talk, parallel talk, descriptions, expansions, extensions and...
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Strategies to Help Your Child Talk: Modeling and Requiring Language
Today, some more strategies to help your child to talk! Model the language you want him to use: This may seem like a no brainer, but modeling the language you want your child to use doesn’t always come...
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Using Craft Activities to Expand & Stimulate Language Skills
I LOVE arts and crafts. I love drawing, painting, coloring, cutting, gluing, using clay, paper, paints, glitter, craft sticks, and other arts and crafts materials. Have you ever noticed that arts and...
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Strategies to Help Your Child Talk: Setting up the Environment For Communication
In my LAST POST about Strategies to Help Your child Talk, I talked about modeling and how you need to require that your child use language. However, when I say “language” here, I am not only referring...
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Top Toys & How They Can Support Speech & Language Development (Part One)
As a speech pathologist, I am asked all the time by parents what toys I recommend they buy for their children to help expand their speech and language skills. When I became a mother, I became even more...
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Top Toys & How They Can Support Speech & Language Development (Part Two)
Welcome to part two of four of my Top Toys series! To read more about why I am doing this series, please check out Part One Here. I am writing these posts to help parents pick good, quality toys for...
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Top Toys & How They Can Support Speech & Language Development (Part Three)
Welcome to part three of four of my Top Toys series! To read more about why I am doing this series, please check out Part One HERE. You can also check out part two HERE. I am writing these posts to...
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Expanding and Stimulating Language Skills at the Park
I’ve mentioned before that language is not learned in a bubble. When children have delays in language it isn’t the hour of week of speech therapy that is going to make the biggest impact but rather how...
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Top Toys & How They Can Support Speech & Language Development (Part Four)
Welcome to the final of my Top Toys series! To read more about why I am doing this series, please check out Part One HERE. You can also check out part two HERE and part three HERE. I am writing these...
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Five Playful Ways to Work on Listening and Following Directions
I recently got an email from a parent who was wondering how she could work on her son’s listening skills. As I was responding to her email I realized that I should do a post on this! There are many FUN...
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Want My 5 Tips to Help Your Toddler’s Speech and Language Development?
Then you need to head over to Toddler Approved right now and check out my guest post today! Today I am sharing 5 tips to help your toddler learn language and communicate. Some of them may seem obvious...
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Best of 2012 at PWW365!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Can you believe it is 2013?? I cannot believe it!!! 2012 was a great year for my family, and for this blog. I FINALLY am feeling like I am starting to “find my voice” so to speak and I...
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Questions: Why Less is More {Part One}
It is such an exciting time when your child starts to talk! So exciting that often times we can find ourselves doing whatever we can to get them to do it more. This is especially true if your child has...
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Questions: Why Less is More {Part Two}
Tuesday we talked about questions. You can read that post HERE if you didn’t already read it. At the end, I shared this interaction with you all between a Mom and her son Billy. You can review it here:...
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What is Communication? {It is so Much More than Speech}
What is communication? A while back, I wrote a post about the Difference between Speech & Language. In that post I touched on communication as well, and today I am going to expand on that post...
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What Type of Communicator is YOUR child? {With Tips on How You Can Help Build...
When we are talking about young children’s speech and language skills, it is important to think of the child in terms of the skills the child currently has (rather than chronological age) so that...
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How to Help Your Child Talk: Slow Down and Be Present
Welcome to my How to Help Your Child Talk series. These posts are intended to give you simple tips to help you work with your child so YOU can be your child’s best “speech therapist.” You may want to...
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Top 10 Summer Activities to Encourage Your Toddler’s Speech Development {A...
This week I am teaming up with some amazing bloggers brining you a series of Schools out: Top 10 Summer posts! You can check out the links at the bottom of this post for more information! Toddler’s...
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