Naturally Speaking San Francisco

09/15/2025

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09/10/2025

Such a fantastic listen!!🤗

PODCAST Alert!! SURVIVOR Alert!!! [S7:E11] “Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: Mitch Guerra on Survivor and Stuttering” LISTEN HERE: https://www.stutteringhelp.org/podcast/season-7-episode-11-outwit-outplay-outlast-mitch-guerra-survivor-and-stuttering CBS Survivor Paramount+ Mitch Guerra

09/08/2025

Can’t wait for the 2nd annual FRIENDs One Day in the Bay at Las Lomitas Elementary School!!

08/16/2025

One of the best shows to encourage the love of reading!

🌈 Stream an all-day Reading Rainbow marathon tomorrow on PBS Retro!

From sunrise to sunset, join LeVar Burton on an unforgettable reading journey filled with stories, laughter, and imagination.

PBS Retro is available on Roku, Plex, and Prime Video.📚

08/02/2025

Short answer- yes, screen time affects child language development!

A new study shows that children’s screen time has gone up 52% since the pandemic. Many parents wonder what effect this might have on their child’s language development, and whether the child’s age or the type of programming makes a difference. Read on to find out.

07/30/2025

Analysis of DNA from 23andMe users points to variants in genes linked to brain function and sense of rhythm

07/25/2025

Thanks, Autism Little Learners! Yes, this message incapsulates what we have been sharing with my great colleagues/collaborators and countless self-advocates and families through Uniquely Human (the book), The SCERTS Model, and Uniquely Human Podcast going back to 1978! (my dissertation on echolalia).

Autism Level UP Uniquely Human The SCERTS Model

07/23/2025

We recently had the pleasure of screening Mike Turner’s Film: The Way We Talk.

For SLPs, people who stutter and parents of those who stutter-this is worth a listen!

Michael Turner is the creator of The Way We Talk, an award-winning autobiographical documentary that has screened around the world and contributed toward a p...

04/27/2025

Yesterday exceeded all expectations. Last July I came home from the National FRIENDs convention with a mission to bring the One Day to the Bay and today it became reality. Thanks to this experience I have made new friends/colleagues, reconnected to a family I worked with for years, met a student I taught 11 years ago at SF State whom I wrote a recommendation for and is now an SLP, reconnected today with an SLP I first met at the FRIENDs National Conference, met an SLP that saw me present at CSHA and b/c of that heard about the One Day and her principal happily paid not only for her but her SLPA and student to come, got to experience FRIENDs through the eyes of my local SLP friends, Scott and Emmie, and was touched when Heather, my vice principal came for part of the day. There are so many more moments and I feel like I can go on but I’ll just post pictures instead and thank the following people for all the support including those on our FRIENDs committee to friends who attended, helped and invited their clients/students to come: Nic Brow, Layla Safinia, Elizabeth Oliverio, Jessica Chizen, Maya Chupkov, Paula Fraser Crosatto, Lindsey Pollack, Scott Tumolo, Bailey Levis, Britney Hopkins, Julie Oeser, Stephany Orellana,
and my school administration and facilities staff who could not have been more supportive. I am so proud to work for Las Lomitas Elementary School District. Yesterday was nothing but pure joy and b/c of Las Lomitas it happened! ❤️