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Monday 9am - 7:30pm Tuesday 9am - 7:30pm Wednesday 9am - 7:30pm Thursday 9am - 7:30pm Friday 9am - 6:30pm

http://nowyouretalkingspeech.com/

Now You're Talking, 43 S. Liberty Drive, Stony Point, NY (2026)

03/14/2026

Understanding the three levels of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can help parents better understand the type and amount of support their child may need. These levels are not about a child’s intelligence or potential — they simply describe how much support a person may need in daily life. Every child with autism is unique. 💙

Level 1 Autism – “Requiring Support”
Children with Level 1 autism may appear more independent but still need support in certain areas.

Common characteristics:
• Difficulty starting or maintaining conversations
• Challenges with social interactions or making friends
• Preference for routines or specific interests
• May struggle with organization, flexibility, or transitions

Support may include:
• Social communication support
• Structured routines
• Speech-language therapy
• Coaching for social situations
*Many children at this level can communicate verbally but may need guidance understanding social rules and expectations.

Level 2 Autism – “Requiring Substantial Support”
Children at this level show more noticeable differences in communication and behavior.

Common characteristics:
• Limited verbal communication or difficulty with back-and-forth conversation
• More noticeable repetitive behaviors
• Strong need for routine
• Difficulty coping with change
• Challenges with nonverbal communication (eye contact, gestures)

Support may include:
• Speech therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Visual supports (schedules, routines)
• Sensory regulation strategies
• Structured teaching approaches
*Children at this level often benefit from consistent, multi-sensory supports throughout the day.

Level 3 Autism – “Requiring Very Substantial Support”
Children at Level 3 typically need significant support in daily functioning.

Common characteristics:
• Limited or minimal verbal communication
• Significant difficulty with social interaction
• Highly repetitive behaviors or strong sensory sensitivities
• Difficulty adapting to change
• May rely on alternative communication methods

Support may include:
• Intensive speech therapy
• Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
• Occupational and behavioral supports
• Structured environments & routines

03/13/2026

**Feeding Friday! 🍎**

Successful feeding therapy often follows the principles of the **Hierarchy of Feeding**, where children gradually build comfort and confidence with food through small, supportive steps.

Before tasting comes **exploring, touching, smelling, and playing**! When children are allowed to interact with food in a fun, pressure-free way, they begin to feel safe and curious.

✨ In feeding therapy we focus on:
• **Play with food** – squishing, stacking, dipping, and creating
• **Exploration** – touching, smelling, and learning about new textures
• **Creativity** – turning food into shapes, faces, or pictures
• **Gradual exposure** – moving step-by-step toward tasting and eating

Play reduces anxiety and helps children build **positive experiences with food**, which leads to more successful feeding outcomes.

Sometimes the biggest progress happens when a child simply feels comfortable enough to **play with their food first!** 🎨🍓🥕

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03/13/2026

TalkTools Apraxia Tools: Why Tactile Prompts Matter in Therapy

When working with children who have Childhood Apraxia of Speech, producing sounds is not just about knowing what to say — it’s about helping the brain learn how to move the mouth correctly to produce speech. Many children benefit from multi-sensory cueing, especially tactile prompts that provide direct feedback to the lips, tongue, and jaw.

Tools That Support Tactile Cueing

Programs like TalkTools provide specialized therapy tools designed to guide and support correct oral motor movements during speech practice.

Bilabial Shapes

Help children learn how to bring the lips together for bilabial sounds like /p/, /b/, and /m/

Provide a visual and tactile cue for correct lip placement

Support children who struggle with lip closure or coordination

Tactile Tubes

Provide direct tactile input to the lips

Help children feel where their lips should be placed

*Targeting vowel sounds

Support shaping and rounding needed for certain sounds

Why Tactile Prompts Are So Important

Children with motor speech disorders often need more than verbal instructions. Tactile prompts can:

✔ Help the brain connect movement with sound production
✔ Increase motor planning and coordination
✔ Provide immediate sensory feedback
✔ Support muscle memory for speech movements
✔ Improve accuracy and consistency of sound production

This multi-sensory approach (visual, auditory, and tactile) is especially powerful for children with apraxia because it helps them feel the correct movement patterns, not just hear them.

With consistent practice, repetition, and supportive cues, these tools can help children build the motor pathways needed for clearer speech.

03/12/2026

ATTENTION: **SLPs, teachers, and parents**

**3D PRINTED PACING BOARDS**
AND.......3D Printed Toobanoo / Whisper Phones / Reading Phones for Sale!

**Support speech and language development with tactile pacing boards! And help children hear themselves while they read and speak!

Pacing boards give children a **visual and tactile cue** to help slow down their speech, segment syllables, and expand their utterances.

# # # Why Use a Pacing Board?

🟦 **Improves Multisyllabic Word Production**
Each space on the board represents a syllable, helping children break words into parts (ex: *ba-na-na*, *el-e-phant*).

🟦 **Encourages Clearer Speech**
The tactile cue helps children **slow down their rate of speech**, making sounds and syllables easier to produce.

🟦 **Supports Sentence Expansion**
Each space can represent a word in a **carrier phrase** to help children expand their utterances.
Example: | I | want | more | please |

Children tap each space as they say the phrase, helping them **organize language and produce longer sentences**

*AND IT'S PERFECT TO USE WITH VISUAL PICTURE SCHEDULES AND COMMUNICATION BOARDS/PECS! *

• Durable **3D printed design**
• Easy-to-clean surface
• Child-friendly tactile cues
• Portable for therapy or home use

These **Auditory Feedback Reading Phones/Toobaloo)** allow kids to hear their own voice more clearly, which helps improve:
✨ Reading fluency
✨ Speech sound awareness
✨ Self-monitoring while reading aloud
✨ Focus during independent reading
✨ Confidence with speech and literacy
When a child speaks or reads into the phone, the sound travels directly to their ear. This amplifies their own voice without making it louder to the room, which helps them notice mistakes and correct themselves.

This tool is widely used by speech-language pathologists, teachers, and parents to support:
early readers, children with speech sound disorders, kids with dyslexia or reading difficulties, and children who benefit from auditory feedback!

*These are powerful tools to add to your speech/ teacher toolbox!*

*Order today!

03/11/2026

Using a **Speech Buddies tongue placement tool** made a huge difference for one of my clients working on the **/ch/** sound!

With **consistent practice, lots of repetitions, and frequent reminders**, she was able to improve her production by focusing on:
• Keeping her **tongue up** in the correct placement
• Using **rounded lips** for the sound
• Practicing the movement pattern over and over

Sometimes our students just need a **clear tactile cue** to understand where their tongue should go. When they can *feel* the correct placement, it can make articulation much easier to learn.

Tools + repetition + encouragement = progress! 👏

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03/10/2026

Continuing education is so important in the field of speech-language pathology! 📚✨

CEU courses allow speech therapists to stay current with the latest research and evidence-based practices so we can provide the best possible therapy for our clients.

We recently attended “Autism and Apraxia: Why Motor Speech Therapy Matters” presented by Alonna Bondar (), and it was incredibly insightful!

One of the biggest takeaways was the importance of multi-sensory cueing and addressing sensory needs during therapy sessions. These are strategies we already incorporate, but the course provided additional ideas and perspectives to strengthen our approach.

Another powerful concept discussed was the use of “Power Words.” By focusing on 5–10 meaningful and functional words, children can experience quicker progress and build confidence in their communication skills.

And of course — repetition is key! Repeated practice paired with multi-sensory cueing helps develop new motor planning pathways for producing words successfully.

We love learning new strategies that help support our clients’ communication journeys! 💬💙

03/10/2026

Now You're Talking started off this month by joining in on some St Patrick's Day fun with 🌈, pot of gold, ☘️ 🍀, 🪙, and a Leprechaun! Making therapy fun with holiday themes is always a great way to improve language skills by increasing vocabulary, expanding utterances, following directions and being creative!

03/07/2026

Sensory brushing helps the brain organize and regulate touch input, which can make everyday experiences like dressing, learning, and interacting with others more comfortable and manageable.

Some children experience the world in a very intense sensory way. Sounds, movement, or touch may make their bodies feel overwhelmed or dysregulated. One strategy therapists sometimes use to help regulate the body is sensory brushing, also known as the Wilbarger Brushing Protocol.

This technique provides deep pressure input, which can help the nervous system feel more organized and calm.

Sensory strategies work differently for each child. Sensory brushing is one tool therapists may use to support regulation and comfort.

Our goal is always to help your child feel safe, calm, and ready to learn and communicate.

*Beginning our speech therapy sessions with brushing helps regulate and calm our dysregulated children. Then they are ready and alert to continue therapy by spending less time shaping behaviors and more time targeting their speech goals. After brushing, they are ready to participate in tasks and complete each task presented to them.

*While brushing, I always sing songs; especially twinkle twinkle little star 🌟. This helps calm down their bodies too!

*I love learning techniques from other disciplines (OT) and using them in our speech therapy sessions!

I love collaborating with other SLP's, OT'S AND PT's! Best practice that our children need!

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03/05/2026

We are happy to announce that Corinne is our STAR 🌟 🤩 ✨️ of the month! Corinne has been apart of our team at Now You're Talking since June 2025! She is working as a speech therapist clinical fellow. Since then she has stepped up, taken the initiative, helped others, collaborated with other therapists, is a team player, and has grown so much as a speech therapist! We are so proud of her and are very happy that she is apart of our team! ❤️ Keep up the hard work Corinne!

Corinne is a Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Fellow who earned her bachelors and masters degree from Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. During her time in college, Corinne worked with a variety of disorders and populations. She has experience working with adults with traumatic brain injuries, aphasia, and cognitive impairments as well as children with articulation disorders, auditory processing disorders, and students with ASD in the classroom. She has worked alongside doctors, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and teachers. When she was in undergrad, she assisted her professor in researching therapies for adults with aphasia and presented at a convention in Boston.

03/05/2026

We are excited to announce that Kylee Clark, M.S., CF-SLP has joined our team at Now You’re Talking! WELCOME KYLEE! ❤️

Kylee began her professional journey at the University at Buffalo, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Hearing Science. She then attended Northeastern University, where she received her Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology and a specialized Certificate in Early Intervention. Now a Clinical Fellow at Now You’re Talking, Kylee is dedicated to providing family-centered, evidence-based care that empowers her clients to become confident and effective communicators.

Throughout her clinical training, Kylee developed a deep interest in supporting the birth-to-three population, as well as individuals requiring support in language development and articulation. She is particularly passionate about Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and oral motor function, focusing on the intersection of physical mechanics and functional communication. Kylee believes therapy is most effective when it is highly individualized and collaborative, ensuring that skills learned in the clinic generalize successfully into the child’s natural environment.

Outside of her professional life, Kylee enjoys hiking, cooking, and spending quality time with her family and friends.

03/03/2026

Today, March 3, 2026, is World Hearing Day! It is a day to celebrate the importance and awareness of Hearing! If you haven't recently checked your hearing, please make an appointment today with an audiology for a hearing exam! Dr. Jeffrey Shannon at Hudson Valley Audiology in Pomona and Goshen will be speaking at the Irvington Library this Saturday, March 7th from 12:30-2:30. Please go see him! He is also kind enough to offer a FREE hearing screening to the winner of the coloring contest at ! Join in on the fun! Happy hearing day! 👂 🎶

03/03/2026

We are so excited to announce our Client of the Month for February! Daniel came to all of his sessions this month, made progress and his family used carryover strategies modeled for them to do with him at home! Daniel is improving his language and communication skills and we are very proud of him! Keep up the hard work buddy! And thank you to for giving Daniel 1 hour free jump pass to celebrate and for giving Daniel a free ticket to go to a Boulders baseball game this season! Congratulations! 🥳

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