Children's Speech Therapy Center

01/26/2026

01/19/2025

CSTC Book Club Alert: This month, our therapists are reading 10 to 20: The Science of Motivating Young People. Feel free to join us! If you’re too busy to read this season, don’t worry – we’ll be sharing our key takeaways.

01/08/2025

Looking forward to getting out of the house? CSTC Therapies is open today!

03/20/2024

Spring Break Day Trip Idea: Locally, we love the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum in Wi******er but we do frequent it often and my children were looking for a new experience. The Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia is only a few hours away but easily provides a day of fun and learning. There are so many play stations that provide open-ended opportunities for language. We personally loved exploring the Rocket Room, the Alice and Wonderland exhibit, and the large water play section. There is also a huge grocery store/food prep/restaurant area that we probably could’ve spent hours in. Engaging in purposeful play opportunities allows children to accept and observe new perspectives, engage in cooperative activities, work on their negotiation skills, and problem-solve with others. What is your favorite children’s museum?

01/16/2024

Ms. Alicia’s family is back at it with a winter cooking activity! This is an easy recipe that many children can complete without too much adult support. Stay warm inside while your children collect several cups of snow. Then address various vocabulary words (e.g., ingredients, pour, add, mix, stir, sprinkles, syrup) and descriptive concepts (e.g., colors, shape, size, amount) at whatever level your child is currently at! These activities can also target cooperative play, problem-solving, and decision-making. Hope everyone is enjoying the snow!

11/22/2023

STEM games are not only motivating but they often are easy targets when tying in academic concepts and speech/language goals. All of these toys explore cause/effect and problem solving. They can also be used to target higher level language tasks like explaining and analyzing. When building them together, we can work on turn-taking, perspective taking, and flexible thinking. You can also use them to work on a variety of academic or therapy targets like attributes, actions, prepositions, sequencing, comparing/constrasting, following directions, etc. Let us know your favorite STEM toys in the comments!

11/21/2023

Cat in the Hat I Can Do That! game: Complete different gross movement challenges every game. Use this game to practice cognitive flexibilty, vocabulary, following directions and turn taking!

Stomp Rocket: In addition to working on a variety of gross motor skills you can use the stomp rocket for turn taking, modeling and expressing action words, and requesting.

Cooking tools: We love these age-appropriate kitchen tools to get our little ones working with us in the kitchen at home. Cooking activities provide opportunities to work on following directions, vocabulary, describing and requesting, and narrative langauge.

Fat Brain Toys Teeter Popper: We love to move in the Teeter Popper! This is a great toy for our kids that like to be moving. It encourages gross motor skills and imaginative play. Practice requesting, labeling (e.g., pop), and open-ended play!

Fat Brain Toys Squigz: Great for gross motor play, requesting, spatial concepts, categorizing/sorting, encouraging speech sounds (/p/ for pop), and following directions.

11/17/2023

The next installment for our gift guide is board games! We love board games because they give you the opportunity to have fun and enjoy time with your child and also target speech and language goals without feeling like you’re doing more “homework.” Board games encourage cooperative learning and can be used to target any speech and language goal. We’ve separated our recommendations into good family games, games that specifically target expressive/receptive language, and games that use language and get your child moving (always good for those winter indoor days!) If you aren’t sure how you can use a new game to target speech and language goals, reach out to your speech pathologist. We’re happy to help!

11/15/2023

We are kicking off our gift guide with our pretend play recommendations! Children learn best through play and pretend play offers so many language opportunities. We can introduce vocabulary, expand language, practice flexiblity and perspective taking, practice joint attention and cooperative play, reinforce routines or teach new routines, and reinforce grammatical structures all through imaginative play. Let us know your favorites in the comments and as always feel free to DM us if you have any questions about imaginative play with your child!

11/06/2023

Don’t forget to provide your feedback on LCPS’ proposed reading curriculums before November 16.

10/16/2023

Halloween tips for our neurodiverse community.

08/14/2023

Vocabulary helps children to think and learn about the world. The more vocabulary that your child knows, the more they will be able to comprehend what they hear and read. Swipe through our slides for some ideas to help build vocabulary with your child.