Tell a story to get a story
TELL a story to GET a story.🙂Takes the pressure off🙂 Models excellent sentence structure🙂 Helps jog their memory🙂 Teaches story telling and sequenc...
Language Development Tip
Why it matters ⬇️ For some reason, adults have fallen into a pattern of speaking in the third person to our kids. For example, people often say "co...
Starting School Mistake
Do this ⬇️⬇️Did you know that teaching your child what SOUND each letter makes is way more important than them learning the name of the letter?E.g....
Reading time and Language Development
This is magic ⬇️YES it's lovely to have kids snuggled beside us or on our knee during reading time, but there's a BETTER WAY when it comes to suppo...
Stop doing this one thing if you want your child to talk more
IT'S SO TEMPTINGto ask our kids to say stuff to us.Like "say hello", "say please", "say mooo", "say milk".ESPECIALLY when our kids aren't saying ma...
What NOT to do if your child starts stuttering
Do this instead ⬇️ It's not uncommon for some kids to go through periods of dysfluency (less fluent speech) as they develop. Stuttering (also kno...
8 Skills that Children need to practice before they develop first words
Teach this ⬇️Are you and your parent friends waiting to hear first words?! Share this with them.From birth, babies are working on these 8 Pre-verba...
4 Tips to Enhance your Baby's Speech and Language Development
Your little one is learning how to communicate from the second they're brought into this world.Communication isn't just talking, it's noises and fa...
Teach yourself before you teach your child
⚠️don't make this mistake⚠️Saying the SOUND that letters make can be so powerful for early literacy. We speak, spell and read in letter SOUNDS, not...
Teach your child to talk using Plydough
Throwback ThursdayA little video of Auggie (age 2years and 7 months) and I playing with playdough and retelling the story of the very hungry caterp...
My child doesn't say some speech sounds - should I worry?
⚠️SAVE THIS FOR REFERENCESome sounds are harder to say than others. Knowing WHEN sounds typically develop will ensure that you’re not expecting too...
Top Language Tip from a Speech Therapist
This makes a difference ⬇️⬇️Sometimes adults so badly want to hear their kids speak or hear them use good manners that they make kids copy them, or...