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10/29/2024

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03/06/2024

Curious about what sounds your baby should be making? Check out this post for more ℹ️

🌟Ages 2-3 months: Cooing and Gooing
At this stage, babies are using sounds that are acoustically similar to back vowels and making Consonant-Vowel (CV) or Vowel-Consonant (VC) combinations. They are typically using sounds made in the back of their mouth including /K, G, NG/ and back vowels.

🌟4-6 months: Vocal Play and Marginal Babbling
Vocal play: At this stage, babies are exploring sounds. You will hear them squeal, growl, and blow “raspberries.”
Marginal Babbling is when your little one puts together CV or VC sound combinations. For example, “MAAAA,” “GOO,” or UUUUM.”

🌟7-9 months: Canonical Babbling (AKA: reduplicated babbling)
This stage is when your baby repeats the same syllable over and over such as “mama,” “baba,” or “gagaga.” During this stage, your child’s sound inventory may include stops (/p, b, t, d, k, g/) glides (/j, w/), and nasals (/m, n, ng/). You may start to notice that they start using /t, d, p, b/ sounds more during babbling than /k, g, ng/.

🌟10-12 months: Variegated Babbling (AKA: non-reduplicated babbling)
This state is when your baby continues the use of CV syllables but their babbling sounds more like words. They will be combining syllables. For example, “gaba” and “bamada.” Their prosody and intonation becomes more adult-like. They will mainly use vowels and consonant sounds /H, D, B, M, T, G, S, W, N, K, J, P/.

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02/22/2024

Easter is right around the corner so I wanted to share an activity 🐰🐣I love incorporating books into therapy sessions. I also love a good theme based activity, gross motor activities, and targeting phonological awareness. This activity hits ALL of those things!!

🐥 Start with a book reading activity using “There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Chick.” This book is fun, repetitive, and is loaded with rhyming words. Then, try sequencing the events to retell the story and select target words to practice phoneme segmentation and eventually spelling. 📝

For a much needed movement break, you can go on an egg hunt around the room. Inside each egg I placed target words to practice! 🥚 🐣

📚 How do you incorporate books into your sessions??

02/04/2024

Looking for a fun way to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your little one?? 💕I LOVE the Melissa and Doug slice and “bake”wooden cookie set because it has so many benefits! 🍪 You can focus on stimulating speech, language, fine motor skills, social skills, and pretend play. Here are a few of my favorite ways to play:

1️⃣ Following directions: set up a pretend bakery or tea party and have kids make cookies to order by following simple to complex directions; can promote pretend play by feeding the cookies to stuffed animals/dolls at the bakery

2️⃣Spatial concepts:, “take the cookies OUT of the tube, put the icing ON, put the cookie sheet IN the oven”

3️⃣Requesting: request cookies/toppings based on the child’s level of expressive language. It could be 1-word: “cookie” or a phrase/sentence like “I want cookie.” or a question “Can I have a cookie?”

4️⃣WH-questions: ask your child questions - What do you do with cookies? What do you put on the cookies? Where do you bake the cookies? Why do we wear an oven mitt?

5️⃣Memory/ Describing: Prepare various cookies with different toppings. Ask them to study the cookies and then close their eyes while you “eat” one of them. Remove it and conceal one of the 4 cookies. Ask the child to describe the cookie that you “ate”

6️⃣Understanding quantitative concepts: pass out the cookies between you, your child, and stuffed animals at the tea party then talk about who has the MOST cookies, LEAST amount of cookies, and who has NO/NONE of the cookies

This toy is a great way to promote play and social development. You can practice the functional use of objects such as cutting with a knife, pretend play (setting up a bakery or tea party), and symbolic play (I have used a drawer as an oven!). Socially, I love this game for promoting turn taking and asking/answering questions appropriately.

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01/02/2024

What if your child is already using one ☝🏼 word utterances, but hasn’t yet combined words? ✌🏼 Try these simple tricks!

1️⃣ Follow their lead. This keeps children feeling confident and motivated to learn language and communicate. Be sure to get on their level. Let them initiate and send you a message about whatever they may be interested in. Respond to and expand their message.

2️⃣ Expand their phrases. If they give you one word, don’t just repeat that one word back. Be sure to add a word or two. For example, if your child says “dog.” You can say: “A little dog! Hi dog! Sit dog!”

3️⃣ Use a variety of different words. Be sure to teach and highlight other words other than nouns. Consider verbs (go, stop, push), adjectives (hot, cold, fast), and prepositions (out, in, on). These are all important for building sentences and developing grammar. When you are teaching new words, try using a parentese voice – speak slowly, exaggerate, and use a higher pitch! This helps the new words stand out!

4️⃣ Model two word phrase throughout the day. Talk to your child using two word phrases throughout the day as examples: “All done. Fast car. Yummy cookie. Bye daddy. More milk.”

Before your child starts combing words, there are a few things to remember that they should be doing first:
• Says ~50 words
• Uses a variety of different words
• Express two ideas using words along with a supplementary gesture to express two ideas (says momma while lifts his arms up in the air).

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