4 Tips to Enhance your Baby's Speech and Language Development
Your little one is learning how to communicate from the second they're brought into this world.Communication isn't just talking, it's noises and fa...
Teach yourself before you teach your child
⚠️don't make this mistake⚠️Saying the SOUND that letters make can be so powerful for early literacy. We speak, spell and read in letter SOUNDS, not...
Teach your child to talk using Plydough
Throwback ThursdayA little video of Auggie (age 2years and 7 months) and I playing with playdough and retelling the story of the very hungry caterp...
My child doesn't say some speech sounds - should I worry?
⚠️SAVE THIS FOR REFERENCESome sounds are harder to say than others. Knowing WHEN sounds typically develop will ensure that you’re not expecting too...
Top Language Tip from a Speech Therapist
This makes a difference ⬇️⬇️Sometimes adults so badly want to hear their kids speak or hear them use good manners that they make kids copy them, or...
Teach your child to say 2-word phrases
LANGUAGE MILESTONES ⬇️By age 2, typically children are using between 50 and 300 words. This is around the time we expect that they'll start COMBINI...
Pre-verbal Skills
First words start here⬇️Your baby is probably already intentially communicating with you - don't miss it!!Learning to talk starts with PRE-VERBAL S...
Make your child 'use their words'
Read for more ⬇️We all want to hear our children speak and when they DO speak we want it to sound polite and respectful. Especially in public.I kno...
Best way to read to your baby
More strategies ⬇️🌟Here's a throwback to when my 4 year old was 10 months old.GET FACE TO FACEPositioning yourself so you can get face to face is a...
If you're parenting a toddler, you might need to hear this
Learn more ⬇️ We all want to hear our children talk so badly that often we put them under too much pressure. That pressure can significantly im...
Do I need apps to support my child's language development
Put the screen down.Turn taking is the foundation of conversation.We know that children (and adults) learn language best from TURN TAKING interacti...
Try this trick when reading with your child..
THIS MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE.Kids need to PRACTICE their vocabulary in order to learn how to to use it independently and there’s no better way than ...