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PECS for Autism | Speech Therapy Phases and Strategies
What are PECS? PECS stands for Picture Exchange Communication System. PECS is a systematic way to teach a child how to communicate with someone else by handing them a picture of what they want. This program was originally designed for children with autism but can be used
The Ultimate AAC Resource Page
What is Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC)? AAC stands for augmentative/alternative communication and describes any mode of communication that is not speaking with your mouth. This may involve pointing to or exchanging pictures, using sign language, using an AAC device that will speak a message when the user
Speech Therapy for Autism: Activities, PDFs, and Info
Speech Therapy for Autism: Activities, PDFs, and Info Autism, also called Autism Spectrum Disorder, is a diagnosis that describes a group of children with a common cluster of symptoms, though the degree of severity for each of those symptoms varies widely from child to child. These symptoms include
Stuttering vs. Cluttering: Definitions and Speech Therapy for Fluency
Stuttering vs. Cluttering: Definitions and Speech Therapy for Fluency What are Stuttering and Cluttering? Stuttering is a speech and language disorder which is characterized by breaks in the flow of speech. Children who stutter may repeat sounds, parts of words, whole words, or whole phrases. They may
Toddler and Preschool Stuttering: Speech Therapy Ideas and Home Supports
How to Treat Stuttering in Preschoolers and Toddlers Many preschoolers go through periods of stuttering. They may repeat whole words or phrases, use lots of fillers like “um” and “uh”, or seem to have trouble coming up with a word. These phases of stuttering may come and go
Stimming and Hand Flapping when Excited – How to Help
Buy Now Stimming and Hand Flapping When Excited - What is it? Is it a problem if a child is stimming and hand flapping when excited? Sometimes, children will flap their hands or engaging in self-stimulatory behaviors (also called “stimming”)
Free Printable Speech and Language Resources
Free Printable Speech and Language Resources! Being a hero to a child (or many children) with communication disorders is hard. Let's be honest, there are a lot of children out there who need our help and not enough of us to go around. So that's why we're giving
Pool Activities for Speech and Language Development
Yay Summer time!! It’s time for Summer break and spending days at the pool. Make sure not to lose all of those great speech and language skills just because it’s summer. You can keep up your practice by working on speech and language with these pool activities! Pool Activities
Farmer’s Market Activities for Speech and Language
With warm weather usually comes the opening of Farmer’s Markets. If you do not live in an area where Farmer’s Markets are present, I’m very sorry for you! They’re so much fun! But you can have your own Farmer’s Market at home, with real or pretend food, or you
Arbor Day Activities for Speech and Language
Did you know that Arbor Day happens in the Spring? I’d tell you an exact date but it’s different for every state. Check out this website that will tell you when your state celebrates Arbor Day. Arbor Day comes to us from Nebraska who decided that they were sad
Playground Activities for Speech and Language
It’s finally Spring! That means time to go outside!! All kids love going to the park or the playground, but did you know that you can work on speech and language skills while you’re there as well?? You can!! Enjoy these playground activities for speech and language development! Playground
Restaurant Activities for Speech and Language
If you’re anything like me, you love going out to eat! But all that wait time at restaurants can get hard for children, especially those with attention problems. Well, good news! You can work on speech and language skills while waiting for dinner and keep your child occupied in
Cluttering Therapy
What Is Cluttering? According to the Stuttering Foundation, Cluttering is defined as follows: “Cluttering is a fluency disorder characterized by a rapid and/or irregular speaking rate, excessive disfluencies, and often other symptoms such as language or phonological errors and attention deficits. “ Children who use cluttered speech are often very
Easter Speech Therapy Activities
Easter is a wonderful holiday full of fun activities for kids. Here are some Easter speech therapy activities that you can do at home or in your speech therapy office! Easter Speech Therapy Activities #1: Speech Word Easter egg Hunt! What kid doesn’t love Easter egg hunts? This is
Rainy Day Activities for Speech and Language
It’s springtime and the snow is giving way to rain! It’s best to be prepared for those rainy days with some great rainy day activities that will encourage speech and language development as well. You might as well get some speech and language work done if you’re going
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New Year’s Activities for Speech and Language
Happy New Year!! I know you’re looking forward to the new year and all the growth and changes your child will make over the next year, especially in the areas of speech and language! Here are some New Year's activities that you can do with your child this week
Parent Teacher Conferences with Speech Therapists
Parent-teacher conferences at our school are this week and it has me thinking about ways that parents of children with speech and language delays can make the best of their parent teacher conferences. Here are some ideas that I have that can improve your relationship with your child's teachers
How to Read to Kids
Did you know that reading to your child is one of the best ways to improve her speech and language skills? It's true! If you only have time to do one thing per day to help your child's communication, my suggestion would be to read to her. Here are
How to Help a 3-Year-Old with Speech Delay
How to Help a 3-year-old with Speech Delay: When it comes to speech and language skills, a 3-year-old should have a word for just about everything around him and he should be able to put those words together to make short sentences. His speech should also be
