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Now scheduling speech sessions for summer! ☀️ I am a Former Teacher ➡️ School based Speech Language Pathologist with 13 ...
04/21/2026

Now scheduling speech sessions for summer! ☀️

I am a Former Teacher ➡️ School based Speech Language Pathologist with 13 years experience. I specialize in:

💬 New/late talkers
💬 Articulation
💬 Autism/language
💬 Fluency/Stuttering
💬 Augmentative Communication (AAC)

💻 Virtual options available
📍 Clinic office location in Brooklyn Park, MN

Message for more information or to reserve your child’s spot.

04/19/2026

Tell me I’m wrong.. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Here are a few of my go to games to target the /sh/ sound in isolation, words and phrases in What others am I missing?...
04/17/2026

Here are a few of my go to games to target the /sh/ sound in isolation, words and phrases in

What others am I missing? 👇🏻

Moving from the clinic setting to the schools was an adjustment to say the least. I often still feel like a square peg i...
04/15/2026

Moving from the clinic setting to the schools was an adjustment to say the least. I often still feel like a square peg in a round hole as my mindset will forever be clinical and developmentally centered.

This reference is not related to any present admin or students. But the concept remains the same- you still will rarely see me using technology in my speech sessions.

04/11/2026

Gets a Masters Degree = Blows bubbles all day. Not what I anticipated with this one but here I am. And not mad about it.

A few of my favorite toys or activities to target the core word GO!
04/09/2026

A few of my favorite toys or activities to target the core word GO!

04/03/2026

I loved this idea from in using this spinning toy in a new way to teach phonation. I incorporated this in my own session for /f/ in isolation and it was very engaging and offered an excellent visual to hold the /f/ while the ring spun.

04/02/2026

Come along as we shape the vocalic /r/ sound into a more natural sound.

In this speech session, the student is stimulable for the vocalic /r/ sound in isolation and in words.. BUT continues to hold out the /r/ in words. Such as “spiderrrrrr” and “motorrrrrcycle.”

Have you seen this before? 🤷🏽‍♀️

I often see this once a student has an understanding of the lingual placement and tension required for the vocalic /r/.

They have the sound but overemphasis it in words. How do we generalize this sound to a more natural production?

Here’s what has worked for me:

👏🏼 Clapping out the syllables to speed up production and reduce wiggle room to “hold” the /r/ sound
👏🏼 Point cues to indicate syllable stress to reduce monotone production
👏🏼 Faded support
👏🏼 Direct verbal modeling ➡️ Gestural cues ➡️ Independent drills

What else has worked for you to generalize the vocalic /r/? 👇🏻

03/10/2026

Anyone else? 🤷🏽‍♀️

03/05/2026

Please don’t make me pretend to be a classroom teacher. I am only gifted to lead small groups of students for 20-30 minutes tops. Unless you want us to just do speech therapy and play games all day that is. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Minneapolis, MN

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http://www.talkingtots.org/

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