Unlocking Social Potential
Updated 10/2021 Looking for some fun halloween speech and language activities for your speech therapy sessions? What is not to love about fall and halloween? I love decorating my home, both inside and outside for fall and Halloween and I also decorated my therapy room with… Read More
Updated 2022 Teaching young children to identify real or pretend Halloween images is a valuable activity. Halloween is supposed to be such a fun time with children but it can end up as a fearful experience too! Think about all the media images related to it, monsters, witches and all sorts of ghoulish characters! Developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget found… Read More
Are you planning for a screening or informal assessment for selective mutism? What is selective mutism? According to Asha, selective mutism is a childhood anxiety disorder. It is also known as “situational speaking.” A primary characteristic is a child’s inability to speak and communicate effectively in select social settings, like school. A child’s symptoms of reluctance to speak can vary… Read More
Updated 2/2022 I often work on teaching s blends and reducing the cluster reduction process of prevocalic and postvocalic s blends with younger (pre-k to k) children. From a phonological standpoint, we teach the child how to mark both sounds in the s blend to reduce the pattern of cluster reduction. I… Read More