Tiny Voice Therapy Services, LLC

10/17/2025

Join us for two fun trunk or treating events!

🍬 Sunday, October 19th from 4:30pm-6:30pm at iddybiddypoolschool in Sycamore

🍭 Saturday, October 25th from 11am-1pm for the inclusive trunk or treat by My Recess Therapy and risinglightsproject at Elburn Train Station

Hope to see you there! Any guesses what our theme is this year?

10/15/2025

Let’s break down ASHA’s dues 💰
$250 – Certified Member (CCC + membership)
$221 – Certified Nonmember (CCC only)
$90 – Member Only (not available to practicing clinicians)

✨ Pro tip: If you don’t need the CCC for any of your work situations, you don’t need to renew at all.
And stop paying for the CEU registry, has a free tracker! 🙌

Follow .slp to learn more about your options and how we’re working for transparency in our field.

10/14/2025

Hey ASHA 👋 here’s a really simple way to fix your dues structure:

💡 Membership: $221 (where all the real benefits already are)
💡 CCC: $29
💡 Let practicing clinicians finally be members only

It’s time to stop charging more for an optional product that mimics what our state licenses already cover and start giving real value to membership, like a true professional association should.

If you want to see real, practical solutions like this come to life, follow .slp We’re pushing for real change, one policy at a time. 💪

10/09/2025

When ASHA’s revenue is $48 million from dues alone and only $1 million of that goes toward lobbying , it’s fair to ask some questions.

🗣️Most membership associations use their dues to fund lobbying and advocacy.
But ASHA only charges us $29 for membership and $221 for the CCC.

That means very little of what we pay actually goes toward advocating for our profession, the thing we need most.

Membership should cost more. The CCC should cost less.

We’re paying for a credential that gives us no tangible benefits, while the money that could create real change gets sidelined.

It’s not anti-ASHA to want a better ASHA.
Shouldn’t all SLPs want that?

👉 Follow .slp for more facts and advocacy updates.

10/08/2025

AAC doesn’t replace speech, it gives access to language.
When we only model verbal words, we hand our kids a single page.
When we model on their AAC device, we give them the whole book.
Every page. Every word. Every story. 💬✨

Let’s give them all the ways to communicate, not just the ones we’re most comfortable with.

10/08/2025

Week 5 of Tots on the Farm was all about sensory today!

We explored different textures of the animal food, brushed a goat, and painted Bob the horse! I think the painting was a hit! 🎨

If you missed the fall session of tots on the farm, send me an email to be placed on the waitlist for spring’s session - tinyvoicetherapy@gmail.com

10/03/2025

Think about it this way: if no one ever spoke Spanish to you, would you suddenly start speaking Spanish? Of course not! Language requires input before output.

AAC works the same way. Children need to see it modeled - without pressure, without demands, and in everyday routines, before they’ll feel confident using it themselves.

When we model AAC, we show that it’s a real, powerful tool for communication. That’s how language grows.

10/02/2025

🐴 Tiny Voice Therapy Services is raising funds to support the equine portion of our therapy sessions and you can help! We’ve partnered with Little Caesars Pizza Kits for a fun (and delicious) fundraiser. 🍕

✨ Order your pizza kit through our link or scanning the QR code: https://fundraising.littlecaesars.com/products?support=c2377c03-a018-4fd9-b6e7-6c1ad6130c29
✨ Share with family & friends! Every kit sold helps us reach our goal!

Your support makes it possible for us to continue offering unique therapy experiences that bring so much joy and growth to our clients. 💜

09/29/2025

Week 3 of Tots on the Farm was all about transportation!

We explored the tractor, played red light green light with the horses, and had some water fun with car washing stations!

Looking forward to our group this week!

If you’d like to be on the waitlist for our spring tots on the farm group, email me at tinyvoicetherapy@gmail.com

09/27/2025

Yes 💯💯💯

We need to look at our environment and supports that need to be adjusted to best support our children.

What the "function" are you talking about?

I'm going to be blunt. There's no value to classifying a behavior as "attention seeking", "escape", "to get something tangible" or "sensory**", the traditional "functions" of a behavior".

**not related to the theory of sensory integration and most often labeled by professionals with no training in sensory integration.

Each one of those "functions" puts the onus on the child. Those descriptors don't help solve any problems. The human experience cannot be simplified to 4 "functions". You know what DOES help? Actually HELPING the child!

If your FBA (Functional Behavior Assessment) has one of those traditional descriptors or "functions", RIP IT UP and start over. It puts the people working with that child on a trajectory of behavior management instead of helping the child learn the skills they need to be the best versions of themselves.

Here's the re-frame.

Behavior is a symptom.

A child has a concerning behavior when:

1) There is an emotion they can't handle
2) There is a need not being met
3) There is a skill they don't have or
4) There is a problem they can't solve

Each one of those implies HELPING a child!

Helping a child navigate a big emotion. Helping them meet a need.
Helping them learn a skill, or
Helping them solve a problem.

As soon as a professional asks, "what's the function of the behavior", I know there's a massive disconnect not only between how we view behavior, but also how we view the child.

The re-frame supports helping a struggling child. The old paradigm promotes manipulating and/or extinguishing observable behavior. We know more now.

I'll say it again. Behavior is a symptom, not a problem. The problem lies within.

Let's commit to re-framing what behavior is and how we can truly help kids. Let's move away from token boards and behavior plans and focus more on skill building and supporting needs.

We can do it, but we need the old paradigm to be retired. Unfortunately, it's still pervasive in our schools and the mindset of behavior analysts and technicians. Let's choose compassion over compliance and helping over manipulating. Our kids need us to do that. They need our help.

Greg Santucci, MS, OTR
Executive Director
Power Play Pediatric Therapy
Chief Adventure Therapist
ClimbRx

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09/24/2025

Come out to tomorrow evening for the Boozy Bookfair! I’ll be there selling my children’s book ! Check out the other local authors who will be there! This is a 21+ event! Hope to see you there!!

09/23/2025

When we know more, we can support our kids better. Here’s what the science tells us. ♾️💜