The SLP Holiday Gift Guide

A few of the most common questions I am asked this time of the year, by friends and by clients, are “do you have a holiday gift guide” or “what should we buy as a holiday present?” The parents I interact with are looking for toys, games, and...

Thanksgiving Books

Thanksgiving marks a big turning point in the year as we head into the holiday season. Books often allow us to expose kids to ideas and environments they may not encounter on a daily basis. That is why I love using these Thanksgiving books to support my clients in...

Social Skills Goals

There are many different areas of speech and language development we work on as SLPs. In my work, I see many children with needs in building their expressive language skills and speech sound production. But SLPs work on receptive language, social language (aka...

How to Implement Core Vocabulary in Your Therapy

Core vocabulary has been a hot topic in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) recently.  When I first began my career in 2006, I had never even heard the words core vocabulary. Nowadays, if you’re talking to someone about AAC the words core vocabulary are...

Joint Attention

What is joint attention? Joint attention (JA) is the sharing of an experience between a child and their communication partner. It is also called shared attention and occurs when two people focus on the same thing. Joint attention can look and sound like many things....

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