Elevation Speech Therapy

08/16/2023

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04/25/2023

Why do some students qualify for clinical speech therapy but not for in school therapy? Let's look at clinics vs school speech and all their differences.

02/18/2021

Yes!! Functional communication is so important!!

12/07/2020

Check out these great gift ideas that help spark speech and language skills! 🎁

Love these ideas by .play.learn.repeat how to use these toys to build speech at: https://kristinamenig.wixsite.com/mysite/post/tis-the-season

09/13/2020

Try modeling descriptions and actions when playing to expand vocabulary and language skills 🗣

08/13/2020

Less = More 🤗

08/02/2020

Love this!! Play is SO important for developing all kinds of language and communication skills in a FUN and NATURAL way...It’s not just play!

07/07/2020

Some tips to help support your child’s language at home!

06/26/2020

My first recommendation to parents of late talkers: try using sign language or pictures to help them communicate! It supports VERBAL language. And in my personal experience, I have noticed many younger kids who are verbal learn words quicker when it is paired with a sign!

06/01/2020

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05/13/2020

These are simple yet impactful ways to encourage speech and language skills from your little ones!

03/14/2020

This is a great way to keep creativity going at home! ✏️🎨💡

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03/03/2020

When we comment to toddlers, they hear the words associated with the exact thing they are paying attention at that exact moment.

02/19/2020

EVERY SLP, pediatrician, teacher, pediatric therapist/interventionist, and parent needs to see this and know the difference between milestones and averages. BOTH of these are important to know and consider when looking at a child’s development, and it’s critical to know the difference. Why? Because many parents (and pediatricians) are interpreting milestones as averages and as a result, children in need of assessment and likely intervention are NOT getting referred. In fact, when you look up milestones on the Mayoclinic and WebMD they are EASILY confused as averages as they use phrases like “say as many as 10 words!” - as if that was a lot. This leads parents to think their children are “not that far behind” when they have less words than the milestone- when in fact, the child could be significantly behind. So please understand milestones are minimums and if your child is at or below that level, they are in the bottom 10% of kids their age- which means intervention is most likely needed. It’s also important to understand the average isn’t a maximum, it’s what 50% of children are able to do- so half of the children at that age are even higher than that number. If your child is at or below the milestones listed below, please consider a speech and language evaluation!

02/18/2020

Still anxiously waiting on those first words? Here are my favorite tips to build and reinforce PRE-Language skills to get your little one ready to talk. SO much happens (that we can’t always clearly see) BEFORE verbal speech- and these tips help with those foundational skills- and honestly lots of skills AFTER a child is talking too!

02/17/2020

Love this simple explanation by aka

02/17/2020

Welcome! My name is Amanda Hughes, owner and lead therapist at Elevation Speech Therapy. A heart for serving others has led me down the path to providing a variety of services as a Speech Language Pathologist for over 10 years! At Elevation Speech Therapy, we are dedicated to providing individualized, quality services to improve communication and language skills.

02/17/2020