Children with articulation difficulties often have difficulty with fine motor skills. If your child has a hard time holding a crayon correctly, try building the strength of the writing fingers/tripod grasp with activities to strengthen the writing fingers. Fine Motor Fun to … [Read more...]
Making Connections While Reading
Improve your child's comprehension when reading picture books together by encouraging them to think about what they already know to make connections. Text to Self Connections When a meaningful event comes up in a story, such as Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Mantchev, take a … [Read more...]
Gestures and Language Development
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...]
City and Country Still Collaborating
A version of this blog appeared on ASHAWire/ASHA Leader Live from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association as "How an SLP and OT Collaborate Long-Distance," Stephanie Sigal M.A. CCC-SLP, January 19, 2016. As therapists, we all have stories of working as an … [Read more...]
Simple Action Picture Descriptions
As a parent with a young child living in your home, you probably receive many toy catalogues between Halloween and Christmas . Don't throw them away! Looking through the catalogues with your child is a great way to elicit language on a variety of levels. With an emerging … [Read more...]
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