Introducing Your Family to a New Language

This week I am excited to welcome Robin Leon, a Community Counselor for Au Pair in America, as a guest blogger for Tandem Speech Therapy. Robin helps au pairs and host families have a meaningful exchange experience, part of which is often an introduction to a new...

Nutrition & Child Brain Development

This week I am excited to welcome Lahana Vigliano, certified holistic nutritionist, as a guest blogger for Tandem Speech Therapy. She is the owner of Thrival Nutrition in Austin, TX. Lahana helps women and men who struggle with weight loss, hormonal imbalances, and...

Peek-a-Boo

Communication begins with social interaction. So learning to play social games, such as peek-a-boo, is an excellent opportunity to support your child in learning to communicate. Not only are we targeting an early phase of social interaction and engagement, but...

Playing With Purpose: Everyday Items

When I started this series, Playing With Purpose, my goal was to help parents, caregivers, educators, fellow SLPs, etc. make simple tweaks to their play interactions with children to expand speech and language skills. I have written about some of my favorite toys like...

Pacifier Use: an SLP Perspective

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist treating the birth to three population the topic of pacifier use comes up often. In fact, it is a question I ask parents during the case history interview in an evaluation. I also ask about thumb sucking and prolonged bottle...

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