Lauren Miller, Speech-Language Pathologist

05/15/2025

*SCHEDULING UPDATE*
Bookings will be closed as of June 14 as I start maternity leave. All available Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings are now live on the booking page for you to book your last few sessions ahead of time :)
The duration of leave is yet to be determined, but I will keep all current clients updated as we make that decision!

03/28/2025

Play Corner Speech Language Services is now open for booking with limited evening and weekend hours! Click the Book Now button on our website or reach out directly. And peek our new updated website while you’re there! 🤍
www.playcornerslp.com

01/30/2025

*Update*
I am excited to announce that Play Corner has relocated to Pasadena, NL and we are currently accepting new clients for our waitlist! Stay tuned for further updates regarding location/start dates, as well as website and social media updates. But for now if you are a family looking for speech or language support for your child on the west coast of Newfoundland, please reach out. Anticipated start date is early March :)

03/16/2023

🌱 Grow communication skills!

Save this post to share!

📌Create opportunities for your child to tell you their wants, needs, and thoughts.

Here’s how it works…

Step One: Create an opportunity to communicate.

Step Two: Wait and give your child time to initiate communication.

Step Three: Acknowledge their communication and respond accordingly.

Step Four: Help them expand their communication by modeling gestures, words, and phrases to match their message.

🎗️Remember to mix it up and try some different approaches for creating these opportunities.

👇 Here are some examples of how to create opportunities for your child to tell you their wants, needs, and thoughts:

✔️ Make items inaccessible by placing a favorite item high on a shelf or in a container your child can’t open.
✔️ Give your child a choice of two books to read.
✔️ Create a silly problem by giving your child yogurt but no spoon.
✔️ Do something unexpected like pretending to fall asleep and snore.
✔️ Practice in daily routines when your child knows what to expect. Wait at the back door before opening the door to go outside. Pause before you hand them their cup of milk. See how they communicate what should come next.

Tell me in the comments-
Which is your favorite way to create the important opportunities to communicate??

02/08/2023

10/22/2022

Sometimes a small shift in how you are communicating with your child can have a huge impact on how they are communicating with you. Consider using these types of comments to help reduce the number of questions you are asking.

08/26/2022

School is starting (or has started) for many this month. 🍎🍏🍎

What can you do as a teacher, speech language pathologist, professional or parent?

We all have our plates full. If you can dive deep into understanding gestalt language processing and echolalia this year, great! If you can’t that’s ok too.

The most important thing we need to convey to anyone interacting with a child that scripts is that it IS communication so please acknowledge the script. It doesn’t matter if it’s in or seemingly out of context. It doesn’t matter if you can or can’t understand it. Just smile, head nod or repeat it back. Our kids deserve to be heard and replied to and not ignored or redirected or forced to say something else.

If you want to take it a step further then look into that script. What does it mean? Sometimes it is not literal and has a much different meaning than the words used. Sometimes it’s communicating something about the body (dysregulation) or an emotion (happiness).

Wishing everyone a great start to the 2022-23 school year!

✨Get our classroom supports freebie and check out our course + handbook at meaningfulspeech.com ✨

08/20/2022

More hype for play! 🧸🚂🪁 These are great suggestions for facilitating quality playtime for your little ones.

07/23/2022

We love play! 🙌🏻 It’s natural, it’s engaging, and parents can use similar activities at home to create meaningful language opportunities.

07/15/2022

Did you know there are 2 ways for children to develop language? I am now an NLA Trained Clinician, which means I'm educated in supporting children who are gestalt language processors. If your child communicates using delayed echolalia (scripting), I am trained to support their language development using an approach that matches their gestalt language learning. Check out the post below - Alex at Meaningful Speech is a great resource for parent friendly information :)

06/29/2022