How Kids Develop Grammar Skills: A Guide to Brown’s Morphemes for Parents
Learn how toddlers develop grammar skills with Brown’s Morphemes. Discover key stages, activities, and signs to watch for in your child’s language development.
Exploring Play Development: Six Stages of Play
Discover the six stages of play and how they help children develop social, cognitive, and emotional skills. Learn how to support your child’s play development at every stage.
Why Hearing Screening is Essential Before Speech Therapy for Kids
Discover why hearing screening is a crucial step before speech therapy for children. Learn how it impacts speech development, what to expect during screenings, and how to support kids with hearing loss.
What Is Speech Intelligibility?
Speech intelligibility is the percentage of speech that a listener can understand and can vary depending on a child's age.
How to Access Early Intervention Speech Therapy
Learn how to contact and access early intervention speech therapy in your home state so you can start helping your child today.
A Parent's Guide to Speech Sound Disorders
Speech sound disorder is an umbrella term for disorders that make it difficult for children to produce speech sounds clearly.
What Is Baby Sign?
Baby sign involves using simple gestures that represent common words like “milk” so babies can communicate before they have verbal speech.
Making Sense of the Jargon: Speech Therapy Acronyms and Terms
A complete guide to speech therapy terms and acronyms to help you better understand the terminology used in the field.
Playing With Playdough in Speech Therapy
Learn how you can make playdough and how we play with playdough in speech therapy to teach toddler's language.
What You Need to Know About Developmental Language Disorder
The basics of what parents need to know about developmental language disorder (DLD) or mixed expressive receptive language disorder.
What Is Expressive Language?
Expressive language refers to the ability to use words, sentences, and gestures to express your thoughts, feelings, and ideas to others.
What is late talking?
Late-talking toddlers have a good understanding of language, motor, social/play skills, but they do not say as many words as other children.
Rocket Saves the Day: A Phonemic Awareness Delight
Learn about structured literacy, phonemic awareness, and the entertaining journey Rocket Saves the Day will take you on!
How to Access Free Preschool & School Age Speech Therapy Assessment
Learn how to receive a free speech therapy assessment for preschool and school aged children in the United States.
The Imitation Hierarchy and Toddler Speech Delay Exercises
Explore the Imitation Hierarchy, a crucial roadmap for language development.
Examples of Symbolic Play
From banana phones to intergalactic adventures, understand the link between language and symbolic play.
Speech Therapy at Home: Toddler Activities with a Muffin Tin
Boost your toddler's language skills with super fun muffin tin activities! Simple, budget-friendly, and packed with engaging language play.
Parents of Late Talking Toddlers, Try Reducing Questions
Parents of late talkers, try reducing questions in favor of comments! Sometimes we call this the 3:1 rule, I call it the 5:1 rule!
What to Do With Pop Tubes: Speech Therapy at Home
Discover how to play with pop tubes with your toddler to boost their language skills!