Tiffany Cater Speech Therapy, LLC

01/19/2025

If you are a private client, we WILL have sessions tomorrow! It will be COLD 🥶, but there is no forecasted precipitation until tomorrow night! 🥰 See y’all tomorrow!

01/18/2025

Our FAVORITE game right now!!! Cam loves to play

https://amzn.to/4gYK7oF

01/15/2025

Morphological knowledge is the understanding of the structure and formation of words, specifically how morphemes—the smallest units of meaning, like prefixes, roots, and suffixes—combine to create words. This knowledge helps people recognize, produce, and understand complex words by breaking them down into meaningful parts. For example, knowing that “un-” means “not” and “-able” means “capable of” helps someone understand that “unbreakable” means “not capable of being broken.”

This type of knowledge is essential for vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and spelling because it enables people to deduce meanings of unfamiliar words and recognize patterns in word structures.

01/14/2025

These scissors are a must-have in our house. From cutting playdoh to cutting paper— so good to get those skills refined before jumping to real scissors!

Here, we worked on one step directions with a modifier.

“Cut ON the line from the bag of toys to the reindeer.”

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01/14/2025

I just saw that this awesome food/sorting/cutting set is 50% off today!! I got this for the boys for Christmas & they LOVE it.

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Vibrant Fun! 3-in-1 Food Sorting, Cutting & Color Matching Play Food Set – 69 Pieces with Baskets

01/12/2025

01/10/2025

Learning Resources Alphabet Alligators are tons of fun!

I’ll list a few ideas from easiest to more advanced:

Putting pieces together and apart. Great for imitating motor movements, fine motor skills, and core words “in” and “out.”

Matching the colors!

Talking about the head and tail.

A great way to introduce early literacy skills by matching uppercase and lowercase letters!

01/10/2025

Let’s talk about VISUALS!

Visual supports are critical in speech therapy because they enhance communication, understanding, and learning for individuals with various needs. Here’s why they are so effective:

1. Improved Comprehension

• Visual supports provide a concrete representation of abstract concepts, making it easier for individuals to understand instructions, routines, or vocabulary.

2. Reduced Anxiety

• For children who may struggle with language or processing verbal instructions, visual aids offer predictability and clarity, reducing frustration and anxiety.

3. Enhanced Memory and Retention

• Visuals help reinforce verbal information, making it easier for individuals to remember and retrieve words or concepts.

4. Support for Different Learning Styles

• Many people, especially young children, are visual learners. Visual supports cater to their strengths and help bridge gaps in auditory processing.

5. Promotes Independence

• Visual schedules, charts, and prompts allow children to follow routines or complete tasks without constant verbal cues, encouraging autonomy.

6. Encourages Joint Attention

• In therapy, visuals help focus attention on shared objects or pictures, which is a foundational skill for communication.

7. Facilitates Expression

• For non-verbal or minimally verbal individuals, tools like picture exchange systems or communication boards allow them to express their needs and thoughts effectively.

8. Adaptable Across Goals

• Visual supports can target various speech therapy goals, such as articulation, vocabulary building, grammar, and social communication.

Examples of Visual Supports in Speech Therapy:

• Picture cards for requesting items or identifying emotions
• Visual schedules to outline therapy sessions or daily routines
• Social stories to teach specific social skills
• Graphic organizers for organizing thoughts in storytelling or comprehension tasks

Using visual supports ensures therapy is more accessible, engaging, and effective for diverse learners.

01/07/2025

Pop the Pig + Hand Puppets 🦓

We practiced turn taking & size of the problem!

Small problems have small reactions.
Medium problems have medium reactions.
Big problems have big reactions.

More about Size of the Problem to come tomorrow! 👀

01/04/2025

Size of the Problem Visual 👀

01/03/2025

We had some candid photos of the boys taken a few weeks ago! There are a few tried + true toys that can be played with so many ways! Here are the toys that I grabbed (boy version 🤪):

Tractor 🚜 - it can be driven anywhere, you can hook a buggy to it, haul things from one place to another… the play is endless!

Mr. Potato Head 🥔 - so many body parts to label and talk about! It’s so fun to put them on & take them off. How is he feeling? Happy or sad? I wonder if he’s hungry… hmm what does he like to eat? It’s also hilarious to put the body parts in the wrong place to utilize the feigned ignorance strategy!

Books - I love the counting books. There are so many fun ways to play with them. For the pictures, the boys loved dropping acorns through the holes!
**linking those books below!

https://a.co/d/fMJZike

01/02/2025

Need a functional + engaging task for your little one? Grab printed pictures and let them look through them! 📸

My boys (2 years 11 months & 1 year 3 months) L O V E to get this dough bowl of pictures and look through them. We talk about who is in the picture & what we were doing that day! Easy way to build language while on the living room floor 🥰

12/30/2024

USE. YOUR. LOCAL. LIBRARY!!!! 📚

This book is Easton’s favorite right now. It’s simple— has animals with the printed word underneath + they’re categorized.

He brings this wherever we are & plops down in our lap wanting to read his book!

Practice good book orientation— front of the book, holding it the correct way, turning pages from left to right, pointing to words as you read them, etc!

12/28/2024

Why is sequencing so important??

🍔 Builds Language Structure: Sequencing teaches our kids how to organize thoughts and ideas in a logical order. This is crucial for forming sentences, telling stories, and having coherent conversations.

🍔Improves Narrative Skills: Learning to sequence helps our kiddos understand and retell events or stories with a beginning, middle, and end, which is an ✨essential✨ component of effective communication.

🍔Supports Cognitive Skills: Sequencing enhances problem-solving, memory, and planning abilities, all of which are tied to executive functioning and overall cognitive development.

🍔Enhances Vocabulary and Grammar: By working through the steps of an activity or story, children are exposed to new vocabulary and sentence structures, which improve their expressive and receptive language.

🍔Improves Comprehension: Understanding the order of events helps children make sense of what they hear or read, strengthening their ability to follow directions and comprehend stories.

🍔Encourages Social Interaction: Proper sequencing in conversations allows children to take turns, respond appropriately, and maintain social exchanges, which are key to social development.

This burger stacking game is one that I always reach to teach sequencing skills during play— & then the skill is easily carried over to literacy based activities! 📚

12/27/2024

Quick + easy drill for short vowel CVC words 🗣️

Pop its + crocodile dentist 🐊

Understanding of the short vowel rule is FOUNDATIONAL & happens to be the first stop on our roadmap to reading! 📍

12/25/2024

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄🎁

12/23/2024

I recently went to a training in Ruston on Augmentative/Alternative Communication (one of my favorite areas as a ped speech therapist!) & wanted to share their phenomenal website with y’all!

Resources for Parents: https://www.ssdla-aem.org/4883-2/resources/parents/

Freebie link to Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LgnTKiTFNWQCsbyFg1JglH9UM7mJ3RAU