Michelle McCauley Speech and Language Therapist

13/11/2025

29/10/2025

I’m always looking for motivational toys for child led play and speech sound drills… here’s some recent purchases…. What toys have you found that your child comes back to again and again?

18/06/2025

Have you heard of final consonant deletion?

17/06/2025

I have a few slots left for summer sessions… perfect for speech sound errors. Get in touch if you think your child needs some additional help!

16/06/2025

08/05/2025

Probably one of my favorite parts of this job is getting to tell a parent that their child is doing exactly as expected for their age and they don’t need therapy! Not a great buisness model I know - but there is something beautiful about being able to explain and reassure a previously worried parent! On the flip side I also love explaining to parents what’s going wrong and how we can help… parenting is a journey and we all need people in our corner from time to time….

17/04/2025

This…

When we discovered that most of the research on play development is normed on neurotypical kids, while most of the research on play intervention is aimed at autistic kids, we had to take a minute. (It’s troublesome, right?)

Once we shifted our lens from the medical model of disability (trying to “fix” deficits) to a social one (focusing on understanding and supporting people in living authentically), it all started to make sense.

In this review, we share how we can:
- use strengths-based principles and apply them to play intervention,
- differentiate three common types of play-based therapy, and
- individualize play-based therapy approaches to provide neuroaffirming intervention

Join us in celebrating Autism Acceptance Month by reading our research review “Teach, join in, play, or get out of the way” at https://www.theinformedslp.com/review/Teach-join-in-play-or-get-out-of-the-way, and earn 28 minutes of Ethics continuing education credit, too!

[Visual description: Cartoon of two children playing with blocks on the ground. One child is lining up blocks while the other is building a house. They are both smiling. Image text reads, "Autistic play is authentic play. Let's approach it in a neuroaffirming way."]

04/04/2025

One of my older students working on their ‘r’ and ‘th’ sounds using ‘complexity Theory’ to work on a complex cluster ‘thr’ - he’s doing so well! (A little tongue tie release helped things along too!)