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Strong Writing Fingers

February 13, 2022 Stephanie Sigal M.A. CCC-SLP

Children who have articulation difficulties often have trouble with fine motor skills. If your child is having a hard time holding a crayon correctly, try building up the strength of the writing fingers/tripod grasp with these types of activities: 1) Encourage your child to … [Read more...]

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Gestures and Language Development

January 7, 2016 Stephanie Sigal M.A. CCC-SLP

Throughout Sophie's infancy, her mom sang songs to her while using gestures.  When singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, mom reached up high with both arms and held the gesture to demonstrate "Up above the world so high." Sophie slowly began to imitate mom's gesture by holding her … [Read more...]

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City and Country Still Collaborating

December 17, 2015 Stephanie Sigal M.A. CCC-SLP

As therapists, we all have stories of working as an interdisciplinary team. In our story, it was co-treatment that brought us together, and the reason why we are still in touch today. Our co-therapy relationship has naturally affected us professionally, but personally as … [Read more...]

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Everyone else is reading this blog, you should too!

December 10, 2015 Stephanie Sigal M.A. CCC-SLP

Hooray!   Say and Play has been voted Top 100 Speech Pathology Websites and Blogs for 2016 by Kidmunicate! … [Read more...]

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Increase Your Toddler’s Vocabulary

November 29, 2015 Stephanie Sigal M.A. CCC-SLP

Speech therapy can provide your toddler with a language boost during the 1-2 hours each week sessions occur, but it is the everyday use of language and carryover of the language goals that make a big difference with enhancing vocabulary. A speech therapist should continuously … [Read more...]

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