Sarah Cruz, SLP

05/08/2026

✨ FREE Parent Communication Coaching Group ✨

Are you a parent or caregiver of a child ages 2–7 who could benefit from additional communication support strategies? Join our small-group coaching series designed to support families in building communication skills through play, routines, and connection!

🗣 Topics include:
• AAC & communication supports
• Language-building strategies
• Play-based interaction
• Supporting participation in everyday routines

This is a hands-on, collaborative group with individualized support for each family.

- Child must bring their own AAC device
- Parent/caregiver participation is required
- Due to facility capacity, only ONE parent and child (AAC user) may attend each session

📅 Cohort #1: 5/28–6/18
📅 Cohort #2: 7/2–7/23

🕓 Thursdays at 4:00 PM (4 sessions each)
💲 Cost: FREE!

Register through the link in my bio or at:
https://www.sarahcruzslp.com/events

05/07/2026

Bee and more bee 🐝 it cut me off 🤷🏼‍♀️😅
Bonus points if you can guess what I did with any of these things (or any two).

What’s in your bag?

04/29/2026

After a difficult overnight stay at a sleep study with dad, this little one had an important message for mom. “Stop stop happy dad helped” 🥹

*posted with parent consent

04/22/2026

Ever wish you could add a flexible writing space right inside your AAC pages for phonics work or literacy activities? Here’s a quick walkthrough on how to add the Whiteboard feature in TouchChat with WordPower/Phonics pages.

This simple setup lets you:
• Model writing + AAC side-by-side
• Support emergent literacy and spelling practice
• Keep everything in one interactive space during therapy or home practice

Once you see where the Whiteboard lives in the page editor, you can easily embed it next to (or within) your phoneme/phonics layout to create a truly flexible learning space.

Save this for your next AAC setup session 👇

02/23/2026

🚀 Rockets to Routines ✨
AAC, but make it play.

We’re bringing a hands-on, movement-filled, play-based session to CSHA 2026—and we want you in on the fun! From stomp rockets to everyday routines, we’ll explore how meaningful play can power AAC implementation across the lifespan.

💬 Wanna play with us?
🧠 Come model, move, laugh, and do AAC—not just talk about it.
🤝 Practical strategies you can use Monday morning.

📍 CSHA Convergence | San Francisco
🗓 Saturday 3/14 | 9:00–10:30 AM

Let’s get on the floor, follow the learner’s lead, and make AAC come alive. 💥

02/14/2026

In AAC, we talk about “modeling” all the time. And I’m starting to think that word is working against us.

11/12/2025

A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet.

11/11/2025

If you have a client that loves colors and labeling items like fruits and vegetables, grab a bag of pipe cleaners and you have a simple fun game. You can target receptive, and expressive language skills.

We made about 10 fruits and vegetables today while targeting language, and then turned it into various receptive language activities afterward.

11/06/2025

10/30/2025

AAC Evaluations! 🌟

I’m currently accepting new clients for in-home and sensory gym-based AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) evaluations and parent coaching sessions!

If you have a little one who is struggling to communicate or has been recommended for an AAC evaluation, I provide personalized, play-based sessions that support both children and families in learning how to build early communication skills using signs, gestures, pictures, switches, and speech-generating devices.

🧩 Services available for:
- Families of children 0–3 years old
- Private pay clients
- Regional Center referrals (including Alta Regional Center)

💬 My goal is to make communication possible for every child — at home, in play, and in daily routines.

If you’d like more information or are ready to schedule an AAC evaluation or coaching visit, please send me a message or email me directly. Let’s work together to help your child find their voice! 💛

10/29/2025

Controversial topic for some, but one I will never change my mind about: All kids deserve access to more vocabulary than a PECS book can provide. And all kids deserve to be taught multiple communication functions earlier than what the PECS protocol teaches.