York Bilingual Speech Services, LLC

06/19/2025

05/05/2023

Bilingual Speechie with some amazing info about Cinco de Mayo. Thank you for your labor in coalescing all this information.

04/29/2022

We are hiring! Looking for a creative and responsive SLP to join us. Check out indeed ad here:
https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=52e80b5c9ca536a7&from=native

Or send resume to susannah@yorkbilingual.com

Come play, connect with kids, and make your own schedule!

02/22/2022

Thanks to the Informed SLP for sharing this well-written and researched post about the concerns in recent CDC milestone updates. These updates are not evidence based and are extremely concerning for those of us who are knowledgeable in the field.

We know you've been wanting to talk about the updated CDC milestones! ⁠
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So we dug in to see what we could find, and are sharing it with you for FREE:
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https://www.theinformedslp.com/review/no-sl-ps-were-in-the-room-where-it-happened

Read to see what makes sense, where things get dicey, how these compare to measures like the MCDI and the ASQ (spoiler alert: they don't), and what the implications of these changes are.⁠
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(Members: The rest of this month's reviews will be published later this week!)⁠

04/16/2021

As I mourn for Adam Toledo, a child killed by police in my city, I thought about this experience my first year of working. As clinicians, we need to continue to expand our cultural responsiveness. Do you ask yourself:

⏺Is this activity reflective of my client’s experiences?

⏺Have I accounted for my blind spots/biases?

⏺Do my materials contain words or images that stereotype marginalized people?

If you mess up, then you learned from it. SLPs are still predominantly white women, and we have a lot of work to do (and a need to diversify).

What questions do you ask yourself when planning intervention?

03/18/2021

If you are looking for an age-appropriate resource to share with young children as we work to confront Anti-Asian and Asian-American hate, this is a good one. It is available as an e-book or can be downloaded/printed.

https://www.youngproudsungjee.com

Thank you to the authors for their work. Let’s stand in solidarity and allyship.

02/26/2021

I’m ready to keep serving my clients via telehealth but insurance is making that tough!

Let’s get to 72 signatures by the end of today - can you add yours?

09/18/2020

Thanks to Laleo Therapy, LLC for sharing this super important work and the reminder that bilingualism is helpful and powerful.

We have the evidence, let’s “shout it from the rooftops” so that both parents and practitioners can make the best informed choice for families!
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Preterm-born children are at higher risk for more developmental needs and delays when compared to full-term peers. Inaccurate understanding of bilingualism leads many to abandon their home language “to help” the child! 😳
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But research is suggesting otherwise so our decisions and recommendations should be otherwise.
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September is NICU awareness month - Would you please help spread this information, whether via social media or by word of mouth!? The more of us who know it, the better chance these kiddos and families will have of sustaining family languages 🤍
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Thank you to these researchers for advancing our evidence that bilingualism is beneficial and not harmful EVEN for those at higher risk or with delays and disabilities: Baralt, M., & Mahoney, A. D. (2020). Bilingualism and the executive function advantage in preterm-born children. Cognitive Development, 55, 100931.

08/22/2020

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Let’s talk about FIRST REQUEST WORDS.

We want young children to be able to request the things they want. Without FIRST REQUEST WORDS, young children will rely on whining, crying, fussing, and screaming to communicate their wants and needs.

When a young child is struggling learning to talk, it is important for SLPs and parents to be thoughtful about which FIRST REQUEST WORDS are chosen as early targets.

Once introduced to the vague word “MORE,” it is common for young children to default to this as their primary request word.

⚠️ The word “MORE” is used best as a supportive word instead of as a FIRST REQUEST WORD.

“MORE” by itself is indistinct and, when habituated, leaves little room for language flexibility.

When a child desires more milk, the adult communication partner is encouraged to introduce a sign or word for “MILK” first, and then eventually build the word sequence, “MORE MILK.” The powerful word in this sequence is “MILK,” while “MORE” serves a supportive role.

Over the years, I have witnessed far too many young children walking around early childhood classrooms signing or saying “MORE” when they had nothing to begin with. These children have overgeneralized the word “MORE” to mean “I WANT...” and then expect adults to figure out exactly what it is they want. This can be frustrating for both children and adults.

When introducing FIRST REQUEST WORDS, choose powerful words such as:
• bubbles
• cracker
• banana
• book
• swing
• fruit snacks
• ball
• up

When a child is struggling learning to talk, we want to introduce powerful words that will increase the child’s ability to functionally communicate. So those FIRST REQUEST WORDS should be thoughtfully selected and be individualized based on each child’s interests and preferences.

If you would like to learn more about my pet peeves related to early target selection, they are summarized in Chapter 5 of the book I co-authored with Dave Hammer called “The SLP’s Guide to Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech.” (Link below)

https://www.cariebertseminars.com/store/p60/The_SLP%27s_Guide_to_Treating_Childhood_Apraxia_of_Speech.html

06/05/2020

Perfect message + great resources

05/30/2020

I was so thrilled to see this link tree: https://linktr.ee/diversebooks4SLPs
Created by Sierrah Harris and and .
As SLPs we need to continue to improve the diversity within our profession as well as the diversity represented in our assessment and therapeutic materials. I know I’m personally psyched to have such a huge list of books- including appropriate age levels and goal ideas! 🤯 Amazing! Shout out to this effort. 🗣🎉📚

04/24/2020

Um, YouTube for speech therapy is amazing! I’m finding such great resources that I plan to keep using even when we return to face to face services. I’m loving:

📺: awesome songs plus they have songs in Spanish 🎶
📺- seriously cute videos and so great for targeting everything from past tense verbs to predictions/inferences 🐱
📺Any kids’ book as a read aloud that I mute and read myself 📖
📺Videos of kids cooking!- great for recall, organization, writing tasks, etc. etc. etc. 👩‍🍳

What do you love?