Kathryn Griffith M.S. CCC SLP

03/29/2024

I’ll take a mom’s night out! 💃🏼 🎶

The post you've all been waiting for...
TWO TICKETS to Morgan Wallen for this coming Thursday the 4th. Lower level baby!

Here is how to score:
1 pt for tagging 2 friends
2 pts to share this to your story
3 pts to share this to your page

**5 pts to post a pic AT Parks Place this weekend and tag us

Contest ends at noon on Monday. And go! 🤘

12/21/2022

The Holidays are always a busy time. Don’t forget to stop and acknowledge the little things.

SOME AMAZING THINGS TO NOTICE IN YOUR CHILD

Parents now is a great time to share something special you notice about your child

12/18/2022

It's Christmas week in the clinic! ☃️🍪 Finding fun and festive ways to celebrate the holidays AND practice target goals always brings me joy. The Melissa and Doug Cookie Dough activity allows a multitude of ways to target language, speech, fluency, and pragmatics. Here are some of the fun ways we are using this toy:

❄️Targeting the /k/ sound: cut, cookie, can I have the ___ cookie?
❄️Language expansion: I want (Santa, holly, etc,), eat __, What cookie do you want?
❄️Receptive Language: Find the brown icing with the green dots and white strips
❄️Counting 1:1 and identifying colors
❄️Taking turns making a cookie or requesting/sharing a cookie
❄️Categorizing cookies by color, objects, people, animals
❄️Targeting sign language: my turn, please, eat, cookie
❄️Prepositions: on top, in, under, next to, beside
❄️Using smooth speech strategies to identify and request cookies

All of these activities can be used with toys you have at home too! As always, remember to have fun when playing and modeling for your children. Just like Santa, your kids are always watching. 😄

05/19/2022

Happy National Speech Language Pathology Day! I absolutely love my job and the amazing families I have had the honor to serve. Speech is more than just words.

05/10/2022

I would like to introduce Helen Griffith to my practice! Born on March 26th, weighing 7 pounds 7 ounce! She is the perfect addition to our family and we are smitten. I can tell she is already excited for me to practice therapy techniques and all the fun speech activities I have planned with her.

I am currently on maternity leave until the first week of June. Have a wonderful and safe Memorial Day. Good luck to my students with the end of your school year!

11/16/2021

With the weather getting colder, activities are moving indoors! I love following Busy Toddler. She has amazing, fun, and creative ideas for parents and their kids. These easy activities also create opportunities for you to build and model language/speech for your children! Get down and play with these easy, at home ideas!

09/30/2021

A dear friend of mine gifted EIGHT books by Mo Willems for my business! I am beyond grateful for her thoughtful donation! ❤️

I love incorporating literacy into my sessions. These simple but creative books help to build language and pragmatic skills in a fun way! I can’t wait to start my lesson planning!

09/27/2021

Most of us find it adorable when our children mispronounce different words and sounds when they are young and first learning to speak. In most cases, your child will outgrow these errors in production. However, some cases like a lisp, may require further intervention.

Lisps are very common in children and there are many reasons why they develop. While they are normal in early childhood development, if a child continues to have a lisp by the age of seven, you should seek professional assistance as the longer you wait to treat one, the harder they are to correct. You may seek professional services earlier if you notice that your child is becoming self conscious or possibly being picked on by their peers because of their speech.

If you have questions about your child or are ready to take the jump towards therapy, contact me today. (317 )721-4391

09/13/2021

08/31/2021

I frequently have parents ask, "what can I do at home to help my child learn to speak?" Here are 12 simple ways to help develop and elicit language from your little one. These strategies aren't only helpful for children with language delays, but are also great for interacting and engaging with all children!

If you have any questions about any of these strategies, don't hesitate to reach out! I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.