The Million Word Gap
READ ⬇️Research has shown that kids who are read to daily hear around 1.4 million more words by age 5 than those who aren’t. That’s a HUGE differen...
Worth the wait
WORTH THE WAIT ⬇️Parents, ever feel like you need to fill every silence with words? 🤔 Here’s a game-changer: WAIT! ⏳Imagine you’re in a meeting, an...
Starting School Mistake
Do this ⬇️⬇️Did you know that teaching your child what SOUND each letter makes is way more important than them learning the name of the letter?E.g....
Stop doing this one thing if you want your child to talk more
IT'S SO TEMPTINGto ask our kids to say stuff to us.Like "say hello", "say please", "say mooo", "say milk".ESPECIALLY when our kids aren't saying ma...
What NOT to do if your child starts stuttering
Do this instead ⬇️ It's not uncommon for some kids to go through periods of dysfluency (less fluent speech) as they develop. Stuttering (also kno...
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...