Are you desperate to figure out how to stop toddler tantrums? Here’s how a scrap of paper stopped mine. This winter, my son really loved going outside, but it inevitably resulted in a terrible toddler tantrum. We live in New Hampshire, so from January to March our yard was covered in snow. There’s never a …
There are exactly FOUR parent factors that impact a child’s language development. If you want to hear the knitty gritty research, go ask Megan Roberts and Ann Kaiser in their research article, The Effectiveness of Parent-Implemented Language Interventions: A Meta-Analysis. These women reviewed 18 studies to figure out how parents affect language growth. They found …
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One of your kids has a communication challenge and the other doesn’t. Does this sound familiar? You may see… Frustration Interrupting Power struggles Miscommunication I’ve pulled together the hive-mind of my mom friends I asked my favorite mom-friends (who have multiple children) to share their insights. Then I combined what they know (life with kids) …
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When I was researching what to write about – I asked some folks in my NH Toddler’s facebook group what they were most nervous about and I shared my own fears about toddler social skills: that somehow this socially isolated time would forever impact my son’s social development. You want to know what they all …
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Why you might want to know some games you can play without toys… Today we’re going to talk about both the benefits of toy-free play and a variety of games you can play without toys. My husband and I are rather minimalist, so we encourage our family to limit the number of physical gifts they buy for our …
As you may have noticed, I’ve finally jumped into the world of SLP Instagram. One of the first accounts to catch my eye was Tandem Speech! Emily Cohen is a Speech-Language Pathologist out in Austin, Texas (TX) who loves helping families to use play to support speech and language development. I quickly reached out to …
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Now that you’re done with your clinical fellowship, let’s start at the beginning. When did you decide to become a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) and what drew you to the field? I decided to become an SLP my junior year of high school! There were many contributing factors to this decision. I took a course in …
Clinical Fellowship Mid-COVID-19 was Actually a “Blessing in Disguise” | Hadassah Read More »
Alexa is a graduate student in New York Bre is a graduate student studying remotely from Utah After my interview with Heena, a graduate student from Connecticut, I was curious about other SLP graduate students. Are SLP students across the country experiencing similar barriers to starting their careers? I reached out to a couple of …
Are you a busy SLP who knows that your students should be practicing their skills with contextualized materials, but you aren’t sure how to pull that off? Keep reading to get some ideas on how to use firefighter activities with your students this week! It can be really overwhelming to stay caught up with new curriculum-demands …
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Uh oh – we’re in a drought. A theme drought! It’s the middle of summer and after the 4th of July, there are no more holidays for a while. What’s an SLP to do? How about we celebrate our essential workers with some doctor activities for SLPs. Maybe you’re pulling out your favorite drill books …
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