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Creating Voices Therapy

🍽💬Tips for feeding, speech and language
🗣Private practice in Dallas,TX
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01/14/2026

Puzzles are more than just play 🧩 They’re powerful tools for building language! While your child is fitting pieces together, we’re working on skills like labeling objects and what they do, describing size, color, and shape, making requests like ‘’more,’’ and answering questions to identify items. Simple play = big communication growth!”

Check out puzzles we recommend from our clinic on our Amazon page: https://amzn.to/45PwXH2

01/11/2026

Sample schedules like this can be a helpful guide, and we can help consult parents in the beginning 🤍

At 4–8 weeks, babies are still figuring things out, so flexibility is key. If you’re someone who likes having a loose routine to follow, this can help you notice patterns in feeding, naps, and wake windows without putting pressure on the clock.

Use it as a framework, not a finish line, follow your baby first, the schedule second!

01/08/2026

This week’s Language Therapy Toy of the Week is the Melissa & Doug Ice Cream Counter 🍦🍨a must-have for building early speech and language skills!
✨ Target key skills like: 🗣️ CV/VC/CVC words 🙌 Exclamatory words 🧠 Following directions
👋 Use play to encourage imitation, joint attention, and early conversation skills.

We have linked this toy and other similar pretend play activities from Melissa & Doug on our Amazon storefront:
https://amzn.to/4stTNxR

01/05/2026

We often get questions what feeding therapy will look like.
It’s about building trust, comfort, and confidence around food. 💙

In feeding therapy, we follow your child’s lead. We work on skills like tolerating new foods, exploring textures, improving oral-motor abilities, and reducing stress at mealtimes. Progress might look like touching, smelling, or playing with food before ever taking a bite, and that’s okay.

Our goal is to create positive mealtime experiences that support long-term success, not power struggles at the table!

01/04/2026

Meet our team 👋✨
We’re so excited to continue working with you this year at Creating Voices! We look forward to supporting your child’s speech, language, and feeding journey in 2026 🤍🗣️

12/29/2021

We want our little ones to work to gain our attention and engage with us. Children are developmentally ready to initiate with us from a very early age. While initiation is listed as the last prelinguistic skill, this skill must emerge alongside using gestures to communicate and vocalizing purposefully.
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"A child’s ability to initiate is a major diagnostic factor in determining whether he or she is a late talker or if there’s a larger developmental problem."-Laura Mize. Initiation is often what helps us differentiate between individuals with learning differences or late talkers, as late talkers often intimate interaction with others, just non-verbally. We want to assist all children in taking the lead to get their wants and needs met.
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In the slides above we discuss strategies to help your child initiate and truly learn how powerful they are!
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Based on Laura Mize- "Teach Me to Talk"
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12/28/2021

Gestures are so important!
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This non-verbal method of communicating is important because it signals that a child understands that he can get their message across to you even if they do not have words, or in combination with words. This is one of the most important places to start when you have a child that may have motor planning difficulties or Childhood Apraxia of Speech! It can also be an indicator of future language development and needs.
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Here are some definitions and some ideas on modeling gestures!
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It is really important to mention that this is a big red flag. If you notice your child is not using gestures by 15 months you should contact a slp for help! bring up your concerns to your pediatrician. We of course don't want to alarm anyone, but want to educate you to work on getting help for intervention!
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12/26/2021

We have been guilty, even as a SLPs, to get overly eager and start working on imitation of words right from the beginning. We really need to work on imitation of play and gross body movement FIRST! Did you know that we actually need a child to be imitating our movements before we target word use? Until we have imitation of body movement, WE ARE NOT READY FOR WORDS!
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Here we define imitation and go through the different levels of learning imitation. As with all our tasks, we need to find the level where the child is, and come up with our realistic expectation of where to start to work towards. For instance, if a child is not imitating clapping or social games, then we should not expect them to start to imitate words or even sounds!
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We hope this is informative and gives you the information needed to help support your child! We know this is a lot to learn, but are so proud of all your efforts to better understand language development for your child!
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12/24/2021

🗣We want eto teach our little ones how to be NOISY so that they learn that by using their voice they can gain and direct our attention.
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🗣This skill does not mean TALK more, but rather MAKE MORE SOUNDS. Sounds and noises come far before words. The very same vowels and consonants we are modeling in sounds are what words are made up of!
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🗣In the slides above we discuss 5 strategies to help you assist your little one in learning to make sounds more purposefully.
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🗣Like with all prelinguistic skills, addressing them in REPETITION is crucial! Repeat the same sounds each time you are playing or performing a daily task!
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🗣Don't be afraid to get silly and have some FUN! That will captivate your child's attention and create an exciting learning opportunity!
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Based on Laura Mize- "Teach Me to Talk"
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12/23/2021

Children have to understand words BEFORE they can use words to communicate. This understanding of language is known as receptive language. We MUST prioritize a child's ability to understand language in order to assist them in becoming verbal communicators.
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In the slides above we talk about skills we are expecting by the time a child is 18 months of age, strategies to address receptive language, and ways to begin building a strong core vocabulary (understanding this vocabulary first, then working on saying the words).
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There are so many pieces to receptive language and these skills take time. We want to help you understand the importance of receptive language and assist you in implementing strategies into your daily life!
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Based on Laura Mize- "Teach Me to Talk"
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12/19/2021

✨Play is the way children learn. It’s how they interact with other same aged children.
✨It is so important for language development!
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✨Did you know there are different stages of play?
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☝🏻☝🏼☝🏽☝🏾☝🏿Here we have defined play and explained it’s importance! We have given a few tips, too! 👆🏿👆🏾👆🏽👆🏼👆🏻
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Thank you for reading! We are here to help!

12/17/2021

So we aren’t going to lie,-this is is a huge skill. We think it’s important for you to know about! It’s also a tough one. It’s really hard to target— even as a therapist! But our job is to educate and help! So here we go-Joint attention is an imperative skill to being able to verbally communicate. It is when shared attention is the shared focus of two individuals on an object. It is when one individual alerts another to an object by means of eye-gazing, pointing or other verbal or non-verbal indications.
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It is also really important to support understanding language. Think about it. If you don’t notice that someone is talking to you, or showing you something? Do you listen? Do you grasp what they are saying? Do you have to ask them to repeat?
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This is a condensed IG definition, and parent education post to help teach children about skills needed for words, and how to try to help! We know it is hard! We are here to educate and support! I feel compelled to say I have such a deep love for any child struggling with this, and parent trying to target it! Keep your head up! You are doing all you can and know how! And if you are reading this— know that YOU are amazing and such an advocate for your child!
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