About Speech, Speech and Language Therapy, PLLC

09/01/2025

✨📣 Cheers to Labor Day!
Even speech therapists need a break from saying, “Let’s try that one more time…” 😂👏

💙 Happy Labor Day!💙
Today, we’re throwing a huge celebration for the incredible hard work and passion that fuel our families, communities, and those vibrant little voices that inspire us all! 🎉💪 🗣
Let’s make this holiday a joyful and safe adventure, overflowing with love and relaxation!

08/20/2025

✏️🚌 Back to School, Here We Go! 🚌✏️

Our amazing speech stars are ready to roll into a brand-new school year! 🌟 They hopped on our speech bus banner, poked their heads through, and showed off their biggest smiles.

Just like a school bus, we’re all on a journey together!
Learning, growing, and making every stop along the way count. 🚦✨

Here’s to a year full of new words, strong voices, and proud moments. 💬❤️ Let’s make it the best year yet!

08/10/2025

📚✏️ Back-to-School Supplies Drive! ✏️📚

It’s that time of year again — and we’re making sure every student is set up for success! 🎒🍎

🧡 Our office is collecting school supplies now through August 15th to support local students in need. Help us make a difference by donating!

Donation Drop-Off Location:
📍 About Speech, Speech and Language Therapy, PLLC
📫 1660 E Booker Dairy Rd., Smithfield, NC 27577

🎒 We’re accepting all types of school supplies, including:
✔️ Gently used backpacks & lunch boxes
✔️ Bento boxes & new reusable water bottles
✔️ Pencils, pens, highlighters, dry erase markers
✔️ Notebooks, paper, folders, and more!

💌 Can’t make it to drop-off? No problem!
Email tmoore@aboutspeechnc.com to arrange a pickup. We’ll come to you!

Let’s come together as a community and give every child the tools they need to learn, grow, and thrive this school year. 🙌

08/07/2025

07/04/2025

🎇 Wishing You a Safe & Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸

From all of us at About Speech, we hope your day is full of celebration, laughter, and meaningful moments with the ones you love. ❤️🤍💙

While fireworks and festivities can be fun, they can also be overwhelming, especially for children who are sensitive to loud sounds or have sensory differences. If your child gets nervous around fireworks, you’re not alone!

💡 Here are a few ideas to help make today more comfortable:

🎧 Try headphones or ear defenders
📖 Use a simple social story to prepare them
🧸 Keep a calming toy or blanket nearby
🏠 Watch from indoors or a quieter location
💬 Offer lots of reassurance and patience

Every child deserves to enjoy the holiday in a way that feels safe and fun for them. We’re sending hugs to all our speech therapy families and cheering you on today and always! 🎉

06/29/2025

🗣️ Pediatric Speech Therapy Tip:
“Snack Time = Talk Time!” 🍎🍪

Turn snack time into speech time! Offer small portions of snacks and encourage your child to request, label, or comment before each bite.

For example:
• Instead of giving 5 crackers at once, offer one and say, “What do you want?”
• Prompt with choices: “Do you want crackers or apples?”
• Practice simple phrases like “more please,” “I want apple,” or “yummy!”

💡 This builds vocabulary, encourages turn-taking, and reinforces expressive language during a motivating and natural daily routine.

06/29/2025

Need ideas for summer activities?

Here is a Summer Bucket List for your Little Explorers 🌈

(Pediatric Speech Clinic Edition🗣️)

☀️ Let’s grow minds, build words, and make memories!

🧺 1. Go on a Nature Walk
Pick flowers, find bugs, and talk about what you see, smell, and hear!🪱🦎🌸

🏖️ 2. Build Sandcastles
Use words like tall, smooth, squishy, and castle! Bonus points for pretending you’re royalty! 👑

🎨 3. Try Water Painting
Grab a paintbrush and a cup of water, then paint the sidewalk, fence, or porch!

🧊 4. Ice Cube Treasure Hunt
Freeze small toys in ice and chip or melt them out! This is great for sensory play and describing words!

🐠 5. Visit an Aquarium or Watch Fish Swim
Talk about colors, movements, and underwater sounds!

🍓 6. Pick Your Own Fruit
Use words like sweet, juicy, and ripe! This is a great time to talk about how things grow!

📚 7. Read Outside Under a Tree
Bring a favorite book and practice pointing, naming, and storytelling.

🎵 8. Dance in the Sprinkler
Turn on music and practice movement words! (spin, jump, splash)

🐚 9. Sensory Bin Beach Day
Fill a tub with rice or kinetic sand and hide seashells or plastic animals.

🛝 10. Try a New Playground
Label actions like climb, swing, slide. Make new friends and practice social skills!

🎈 11. Blow Bubbles
Practice words like pop, big, tiny or try to catch them with a buddy!

🌽 12. Visit a Farmer’s Market
Name fruits and veggies, practice greetings, and explore colors and smells!

🐾 13. Animal Sound Scavenger Hunt
Find animals (real or toys) and make their sounds! (moo, baa, hiss)

🎨 14. Make Sidewalk Chalk Art
Draw shapes, letters, or faces! Talk about what you create together!

🍦 15. Ice Cream Taste Test
Try different flavors and describe them with words like cold, yummy, soft, chocolatey!

🪁 16. Fly a Kite
Talk about wind, colors, directions, and feelings! (I.e. up, down, fast, wow!)

🦋 17. Catch Butterflies or Watch Bees
Describe what they’re doing! Are they flying, buzzing, or landing?

🎭18. Play Dress-Up Outside
Be a firefighter, pirate, or princess! Act out little stories to build imagination and speech.

🌟 19. Create a Summer Craft
Glue, stick, and talk about what you’re making! This is great for following directions and labeling.

🌼 20. Sing Songs Around a Campfire (Real or Pretend!)
Classic songs help build vocabulary, rhythm, and memory!

🎒 Bonus Tip for Parents & Caregivers:
Talk through everything. An easy way to engage is to narrate your day, ask questions, and follow your child’s lead! Every moment is a chance to build language 🗣️💛

06/26/2025

🌟🌀 It’s Stitch Day, and things got a little weird around here in the BEST way possible! 💙💫

Our team and kiddos rocked their Stitch ears and embraced their inner alien with smiles, silliness, and a message we all need to hear:
✨ “It’s OK to get weird today!” ✨

Because in speech therapy, we celebrate being unique, expressive, and totally ourselves, just like Stitch! 💬🗣️

Experiment 626! (6/262025)