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Five more tips to develop language through play. A parent and child playing with large bulding bricks.

5 More Tips to Develop Language Through Play

November 17, 2019

Play is such a powerful tool to help develop a variety of skills, which is why many professionals recommend parents play with their children. It

title, "Five Tips play to encourage development" and a picture of a young child playing with large clicking bricks.

5 Tips For Using Play to Encourage Development

November 3, 2019

Play can be a powerful tool to encourage language development. An SLP, OT, or other professional has recommended that you play with your child. Now

More Tips for a Push-In SLP in Preschool

July 26, 2018

In the last post, I posted tips for a new push-in SLP in preschool. While writing it, I realized that it was becoming too big

Creating a vocabulary rich preschool environment. A picture of an empty preschool room.

Five Tips for Creating Vocabulary Rich Preschool Classrooms

February 4, 2018

Establishing an environment for vocabulary development is crucial for all children. This is especially true for children who are in special education/at-risk programs. In my experience,

"Using Pirate, Viking, Scientist in speech therapy" with a picture of the book cover a pirate & a viking looking angrily at one another and a scientist in the middle.

Using Pirate, Viking, and Scientist in Speech Therapy

September 15, 2017

Pirate, Viking, and Scientist by Jared Chapman is an engaging book about a scientist who is friends with a pirate and a Viking, but the

Using Boxes to Teach Spatial Concepts

November 1, 2015

In my family it’s common to hear, “One of the best toys to give children is a box.” Some of my favourite memories as a

Teaching Upside Down: Great for Halloween or Bat Theme Language Therapy

October 26, 2015

I want to thank the Frenzied SLPs and Doyle Speech Works for hosting this linky party. Halloween in the preschool classes, I work in, means a

Using Animal Figurines in Speech Therapy

September 27, 2015

Being an SLP, I have a lot of toys and games. I have already talked about how much I love Orchard Toys to work on

Those Crazy Pronouns: Working on He, She and They in Therapy

September 8, 2015

Pronouns can be very very tricky for children with language delays. Every year a good portion of the children I work with end up with pronouns

Build language with groceries and a picture of various fruit and vegetables

10 Ways to Use Groceries to Build Language Skills

April 20, 2015

Last post I talked a little about how you can use laundry to help language development, (click here). This time I would like to talk