Sunflower Speech Kansas, LLC

Sunflower Speech Kansas, LLC Striving to bring children confidence by providing engaging, evidence based speech & language therapy

08/22/2025

Congratulations Kylie Wheeles!!! 🎉🥳🤩 I will message you and find a time to get these goodies to you!

08/21/2025

Ope! Don’t mind me not knowing what day it is 🤣🤣 Giveaway ends tomorrow… because tomorrow is Friday…. Not today🤣

TODAY is the last FULL day of the giveaway!!! I will be drawing a winner tomorrow! 🤩Go find my last post to enter!
08/21/2025

TODAY is the last FULL day of the giveaway!!! I will be drawing a winner tomorrow! 🤩

Go find my last post to enter!

UPDATE!!! Due to personal matters I will be posting the giveaway tomorrow morning instead!! A great way to start a Monda...
08/18/2025

UPDATE!!! Due to personal matters I will be posting the giveaway tomorrow morning instead!! A great way to start a Monday!! ☀️🫶🏼😉

🤩 GET READY FOR A GIVEAWAY INCLUDING SOME OF MY FAVORITE MATERIALS! 🤩
08/16/2025

🤩 GET READY FOR A GIVEAWAY INCLUDING SOME OF MY FAVORITE MATERIALS! 🤩

🗓️Days in AUGUST & SEPTEMBER that I am scheduled to be closed. 🗓️
08/15/2025

🗓️Days in AUGUST & SEPTEMBER that I am scheduled to be closed. 🗓️

08/13/2025

Now that his enlarged tonsils are removed and he has recovered we are back to working on the K and G sounds. MAN!!! What a difference that has made! He’s killing it already! 🤩

When working on the K and G sounds I usually see the substitution of the T for the K sound and the D for the G sound. This means the tongue is going up, touching the hard palate instead of staying down and bunched back.

FREE TIPS FOR WORKING ON THE K AND G SOUNDS🤪 but also… come see me!! 😆😉

✅GARGLING helps pull the tongue back and helps clients feel about where their tongue should be.

✅(not videoed) Have the child starts by SAYING “AHHH” (like when at the doctors) and then go into saying the G or K sound. “Ahhhhh-G Ahhhhh-K”

✅Using a SPOON, TONGUE DEPRESSOR, or SUCKER to Hold the front of the tongue down to prevent it from moving up to the hard palate like it is used to doing. This makes the back of the tongue do the work like it needs to be doing to make that K and G sound.

08/11/2025

👅How cute is this little guy working on tongue mobility and muscle strengthening exercises?!?! 👅

I use suckers for these exercises instead of tongue depressors because it’s more enticing to children.

The tongue plays a huge part in swallowing and talking! It’s important to make sure the tongue is moving correctly in all directions as well as demonstrating appropriate strength. There’s many more exercises, but we’re starting off with some basic ones. 🤪

This kiddo is currently on thickened liquids, but we’re going to do our best to get him off of that!😁

This client is targeting all R sounds at conversational level and when asked “What has been your favorite thing so far t...
08/06/2025

This client is targeting all R sounds at conversational level and when asked “What has been your favorite thing so far today?” He pointed at me and said “SPEECH!” (Even though it was only 10:30 AM🤣 it still melted my heart).

Me too buddy! I love speech therapy and all my kiddos!!! 🥳🫶🏼

✨PRAGMATICS aka SOCIAL LANGUAGE SKILLS✨Long, but important post. 😋A lot of times behaviors stem from deficits in communi...
08/04/2025

✨PRAGMATICS aka SOCIAL LANGUAGE SKILLS✨

Long, but important post. 😋

A lot of times behaviors stem from deficits in communication abilities. It is super important to teach kiddos how to communicate in different social situations. Teaching pragmatic skills will look different for each child depending on multiple factors. Some factors to consider include age, environment, communication ability, diagnosis, past trauma, family dynamic, ect.

You always want to meet the child where they’re at and do your best to figure out WHY behaviors are taking place.

Is a behavior disorder the primary reason? Usually not.

This client and I talked about having nice hands, or happy hands. We talked about what it means to be nice, times when people were nice to us, times when we were nice to other people. We talked about how it is NOT nice to use our hands to hit, and instead talked about phrases we can use to replace hitting.

For this kiddo, hitting incidents are being seen mostly when he wants to play with a toy another kid has or when another kid comes and takes a toy away from him. My buddy here also has an expressive language disorder, so of course it’s going to be more challenging for him to express how he feels. We acted out play scenarios using the short phrases that have been introduced to him. 99.9% of the time kids are not out to be malicious (not research based…. buuuuut I’m sure it’s pretty darn close🤪). They need guidance and they need to be taught tools that they can use when they face challenging situations. Being an effective and efficient communicator is one of the greatest tools.

I absolutely love helping these kiddos become emotionally strong communicators by teaching them how to use proper communication skills during hard times. Learning how to use appropriate social language skills is highly important for ALL kiddos. 🫶🏼

A HUGE THANK YOU to the generous soul who donated multiple books to the office!🤍🤗 I, and everyone else at Create Your Pe...
08/01/2025

A HUGE THANK YOU to the generous soul who donated multiple books to the office!🤍🤗 I, and everyone else at Create Your Peace, greatly appreciate all donations (toys, books, games, office supplies, etc.). Your generosity helps the growth of the kiddos we work with. Next time you go through no longer used items, please keep us in mind. 😇🫶🏼

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