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🌞 Speech & Language Therapy
📍 Saskatoon, SK
🌿 Now accepting new clients of all ages

〰️ Helping you grow, connect, & communicate with confidence.

www.covetherapies.ca

04/30/2026

Spring is the perfect time to refresh your book rotation 🌷

These spring-themed favourites are great for building early language through repetition, prediction, and simple, engaging stories.

Book recommendations:
📚 Stuck
📚 The Flower Thief
📚 There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog
📚 Little Blue Truck’s Springtime
📚 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
📚 Carrot Soup

You don’t have to read every word—focus on: ✨ Starting with simple language for little ones
✨ Talking about the pictures
✨ Following your child’s interests
✨ Reading it the same way each time at first, to build verbal routines
✨ Pausing and giving your child time to join in. This brings opportunities for your child to join in!

📩 Save this for your next spring library trip!

04/27/2026

It may not look like spring out here in Saskatoon quite yet… but spring language opportunities are just around the corner!

Spring is full of natural opportunities to build language 🌷

It doesn’t need to look fancy. Talking, playing, exploring, and following your child’s lead all support communication growth!

Slide through for:
- Spring activity ideas
- Everyday moments for language growth
- Spring sensory play ideas
- Spring vocabulary
- Ways to target specific goals

SLP Tips: ✨ Model simple words and phrases
✨ Narrate what you see ✨ Expand on what your child says
✨ Meet your child where they’re at, in terms of skills and interests ✨ Focus on connection over correction

04/07/2026

Cove Therapies provides personalized interests- and play-based speech and language therapy services for children and adults in Saskatoon. 🌊

Main areas of support include:
• Expressive Language – Expressing and sharing ideas and needs

• Receptive Language – Understanding directions, questions, and conversations

• Speech Sounds – Improving clarity and articulation

• Literacy – Reading, writing, and phonological awareness skills

• AAC – Supporting communication using additional tools when speech alone cannot meet all needs

• Social Communication – Strengthening the ability to connect with others

Services are strengths-based and family-centred, with practical strategies that carry over into everyday life!

Check out the link in bio to connect or learn more 🤍

04/02/2026

Today is World Autism Day!

What neurodiversity-affirming speech therapy looks like:
• Prioritizing connection
• Honouring all forms of play
• Presuming competence
• Supporting sensory needs
• Using a total communication approach
• Celebrating strengths & preferences
• Collaborating with families & teams
• Continuing to learn, listen, & advocate

Autism is a neurotype, and the world needs minds of all kinds! 💛

Let's continue to move beyond awareness and towards acceptance. 🌎

03/26/2026

We love puzzles around here 🧩

They’re a simple but powerful way to build communication—whether you’re working on matching, modeling sounds, making requests and asking for help, or describing.

Start simple (think large k***s, sound effects, fewer pieces), then build up the complexity over time.

Match your communication goals to the level. Example: vehicle sounds → labeling the vehicles → describing the vehicles

Same activity, different targets. So many opportunities to learn through play!

03/24/2026

Wait!!! ✋The Power of Waiting…

If you’re supporting a toddler, late talker, or early communicator — this one’s for you.

You may know what your child wants to communicate without them talking, but sometimes we jump in too fast.

Research in early language development reminds us that children often need extra time to process what they hear, figure out what they want to say, and plan how to say it. When we slow down and wait, we’re giving their brain time to do that work.

✨ Try this instead:
* Create a small communication temptation by “forgetting” to do something (e.g., pause before opening a snack, give one shoe). Wait, and then model.

* Start a routine: “Ready, set…” and pause.

* Sing a familiar song and stop before the exciting part.

* Model a word or phrase 2-3 times, with lots of waiting time (e.g., “dog!”).
 Get face-to-face. Look expectantly. Stay present. And acknowledge any type of response as a response (e.g., a wiggle, a sound, a look).

Waiting gives your child more opportunities to communicate. It creates more back-and-forth turns and it builds confidence.

It is a simple but powerful tool to utilize!

03/19/2026

The world needs minds of all kinds! It's Neurodiversity Week, and we are celebrating all of the wonderfully different ways our brains work, think, and take in the world around us. ❤️🩵💚💜💛

03/13/2026

Hearing your child make a speech sound error? Here’s how you can respond:👇

1️⃣ Model, don’t correct. Repeat the word back with the correct sound and gentle emphasis. Child: “Tar!” → You: “Yes! A ssstar!”

2️⃣ Build sound awareness. Talk about sounds, point to your mouth, use a mirror, and notice sounds in books and everyday moments. “Look! A sssun. That’s the snake sound — ssss!”

3️⃣ Check in. If your child isn’t on track to meet a speech sound milestone (check out an earlier post for this outline!), a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) can assess the nature of the errors and share strategies to try at home.

✨ Early support for speech sound development can make a big difference in the long run!

03/10/2026

Let's chat about a cool language study! We often talk about play as the gold standard for language stimulation, but research suggests feeding may be an underused powerhouse. 💪🏼

A study found that in a group of 12 babies:

• Infant-directed speech (i.e., "parentese" — exaggerated pitch and prosody that support language learning) and other intentional language strategies were strongest during play. They were not used as often during milk feeding and solid feeding.

• Feeding routines offered greater lexical diversity (i.e., greater range and variety of vocabulary) than play.

📌 Key takeaway:

Feeding is an obligatory routine that happens multiple times a day. With small, intentional shifts, mealtimes (including milk feeding) can become powerful, repeatable opportunities to support early language development!

💡Try using a strategy from our "caregiver tip" series next mealtime!

🧾 Zimmerman et al., 2019. Infant Behavior & Development.

03/04/2026

What a joy it's been to create this little safe haven, that aims for every individual to be valued, connected, and heard. 🌱

Cove in Saskatoon offers collaborative, strengths-based adult & pediatric speech-language therapy from an SLP. Check out the link in bio to learn more! ☺️

02/25/2026

Whether you’re a clinician, a parent, a speech therapy client, or anyone doing the quiet work of change, progress rarely follows a straight path.

There are waves, pauses, and recalibrations. Weeks that feel like nothing is happening.

A reminder that every phase is an important part of the process! 🫶🏼

11/20/2025

My most recent post was for those wanting to support a little one’s pre-linguistic skills, or those worried about a late talker. Let's chat more about this!

Imitation & modeling is everything, when it comes to learning to speak and communicate!

💡TIPS:

1️⃣ If your child seems “stuck” in a certain imitation stage, try modeling a bigger variety of skills around that stage.

For example: If they aren’t copying you tapping a drum, model other actions like putting toys in a container or stirring during pretend cooking.

2️⃣ If they aren't imitating you, try imitating them! Following their lead and copying their actions can boost connection and help imitation grow. 🌱

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380 C 2nd Avenue N
Saskatoon, SK
S7K2B9

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http://covetherapies.ca/

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