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Moving Mountains Speech Therapy

Pediatric Speech Language Pathologist specializing in speech sound disorders
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12/23/2025

Mark your calendars! January 14th @ 6 pm MT.

Do you want to learn how to use the staRt app in therapy? Need more details about what the waves can tell you? You won't want to miss this live with Dr. Tara McAllister 👏🏻

Have any questions you're dying to ask? Let me know below! 👇🏻

12/17/2025

It’s so satisfying to watch a child nail a vocalic ‘r’ and watch the two peaks slide into place 🙌🏻🎉 sometimes kids can’t tell when their tongue is in the right position for ‘r’, and the StaRt app (combined with relying on acoustic self-monitoring) can really help everything click into place. , this app is such a winner 👏🏻

12/14/2025

Before we start drilling sounds or giving feedback, we need to connect with the children we're working with. This can look like asking about their day, checking in to see how specific events turned out (like recitals or games), or even just letting them know that you see how hard they're working. If kids feel safe and seen, it's easier to provide corrective feedback.

How do you like to connect with the kids you work with?

12/11/2025

Magnet mazes for the win this week in speech therapy!

12/09/2025

Coarticulation has got to be one of the best tools for ‘r’ therapy. I really like finding a solid medial ‘r’ target word/phrase and then fading the last half of the word (like ‘car ride’ to ‘car’). Kids usually need a lot of reminders to freeze their tongue in the initial ‘r’ position as they’re fading the rest of the word/phrase, but once they do it can make a big difference in the ‘r’ quality.

12/03/2025

Varying prosody is a big part of apraxia therapy. This is started once a child can consistently say a target word accurately at a normal rate (aka not in the acquisition stage). This helps build flexibility and encourages generalization.

11/24/2025

I’ve been working with this kiddo for a long time trying to get any velar sound. It’s taken almost a year to go the ‘k’ sound. Now we’re working on turning the ‘k’ into a ‘g’ and it’s been tricky. Sometimes voicing is extra hard for kids bc it’s such a small change to make. With a lot of trial and error, they did it 🎉 These kind of days feel extra rewarding as an SLP 🥹

11/18/2025

Adding a consonant ending to ‘or’ can be especially tricky for some kids. It’s a lot of movement within a word when you’ve just mastered vocalic ‘r’, and it can take a lot of practice to master the motor planning involved. I’ve found holding out the ‘r’ sound slightly before adding the final consonant can help a lot. These mini toys by and were perfect for switching from ‘core’ to ‘corn’.

11/13/2025

Here's the link to the staRt app I've been using in my therapy videos lately. This is the web based version, so you can use it during teletherapy or in person. I also recommend using a microphone during in-person sessions, I've linked the one I have below.

https://bitslabstart.com/

11/04/2025

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the staRt app lately, so I wanted to show a video that demonstrates how it can be helpful to let a child experiment with tongue position so they see how it changes the waves. Sometimes they stumble across a decent ‘r’ and the biofeedback can help them recognize it was correct 👏🏻 this app is seriously a game changer.

10/30/2025

Sometimes explaining the specific differences between sounds (like ‘m’ and ‘b’) helps older kids have a better idea of what changes they need to make to be successful (knowledge of performance type of feedback for the win). Combined with hand cues and chaining, the target word ‘maybe’ sounded a ton better 👏🏻

10/28/2025

This is one of my go-to resources for allllll the different goals I work on each week. I’ve had it for years and still use it weekly. If you need more language resources and don’t want to spend a ton of 💰, this is a great starting point.

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Cedar Hills, UT

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http://movingmountainsspeechtherapy.com/

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