Lawler Speech Language Therapy LLC

05/13/2022

Playing with kids while modeling words and phrases is so important!

10/03/2021

Love these!

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03/26/2021

Apraxia strategies for parents

Free infographic to share with parents!

https://www.cariebertseminars.com/uploads/2/8/9/0/28903483/apraxia_strategies_for_parents.pdf

03/26/2021

Love this visual 💞

👊🏾 Ready to level up?
Here's the scenario: child points to the puppy and a caregiver says "The puppy is sleeping! Can you say the puppy is sleeping?" ...Silence.
This is where the idea of "levels" comes into play! If a child is communicating through gestures, sentences may be too big of a jump. For this example, the child is using gestures and the next level is sounds. Modeling "woof" or snoring sounds may be more likely to elicit a response.
Little ones may vary in the level of language they use throughout an activity (development is not always a straight line), but meeting the child at their current level and then moving up is a great place to start! Many of the resources I create include levels with suggested prompts so caregivers know exactly where to start 🤗
Expanding on the puppy example 🐶 -
Attention (looking at the puppy) -
Gestures (pointing at the puppy) -
Sounds ("Woof") -
Words ("Puppy") -
Phrases ("Night-night Puppy")

01/24/2021

Reading story books and talking about pictures and vocabulary is so important! With each repetition of the story, the child should learn more about it and eventually talk more about the story than than the adult does.
It’s not just the adult reading and the child listening . The child should become the storyteller.
Have the conversations.
Make learning fun...🥰

With the Story Sidekick launch coming soon, I thought this would be great to share again.
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Using literacy as your therapeutic base can be so powerful...and practical! It provides your students with an immediate opportunity to see their skill in action and why it is important to know.
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Targeting vocabulary with books is perfect use but you can give that vocabulary lesson a boost when paired with dialogic reading styles as found in a study by Flack et al.,2017.
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https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-12814-001
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01/04/2021

https://www.spiffyspeech.com/post/winter-themed-digital-speech-therapy-activities?fbclid=IwAR1Toc9rVn183kMigPJLd4Y1W6ZIsu5ysmn1oQrFWZoy_9D_IyG73Zs26jk

After a year that seemed like it was modeled after Jumanji, we have somehow made it to 2021! Happy New Year!! Since planning sessions on the last Sunday of winter break is always the stuff of nightmares, I thought I'd share a list of winter-themed therapy activities and ideas that I've been slowly c...

12/15/2020

Some positivity

We've won some hard-earned wisdom.

12/09/2020

Reposting a goodie!