Teletherapy for Toddlers Success or Bust? With the worldwide pandemic and ongoing quarantine restrictions many businesses, including my own, have had to suddenly pivot and provide services online rather than in person. Virtual Speech Therapy (also called Telehealth or Teletherapy) has actually been offered by our field for about a decade but was mostly used […]
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The Facts of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) “My child isn’t talking but his/her friends are talking in sentences now. What should I do?” This is a common statement early intervention Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) hear frequently. If your child is not talking, this can be a sign of a speech and language delay. As early
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First, I want to say that it’s totally normal for toddlers to not want to share. Children are born selfish beings and as explained by Piaget, the developmental psychologist, children are egocentric naturally. They don’t learn things like “thinking from another person’s perspective” or “thinking about how other people feel” until closer to four or
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I have five tips to share with you that I have personally used with toddlers for over 10 years as a preschool teacher’s aide and then as a speech therapist and I hope you find them helpful. Tip #1 Distract. If your child is upset about something that he can’t have or can’t do at
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How do you know that your toddler is ready? I never start younger than 24 months, sometimes later for boys. Often children who are late talkers are also late potty trainers. The average age for girls to be toilet trained is 29 months, and for boys it’s 31 months. IF they are starting to indicate
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In addition to speech therapy, there are so many ways to bring that work home and implement it in your daily lives and interactions with your child. So, here are three quick tips explaining some ways to increase your child’s speech and language development at home. Tip #1: Increase Socialization with Peers Socialization is so
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So, why is your child not progressing? There are 3 main reasons that I find this is happening. 1. Beginning Too Advanced One is that the therapist may have started at a level that is too high for your child. When I was a new therapist, I honestly found myself making this mistake, in that
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