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•Tiffany Cater, M.S., CCC-SLP, Treating Therapist, Owner & Founder

•Private, pediatric, evidenced-based speech therapy services

•Offering evaluations, treatment, & parent coaching

•Specializing in articulation, language, structured literacy, AAC & TOTs

04/06/2026

Parents LOVE seeing what we’re working on in speech 💛🐷🐮🐴🐑🐥

Here, we played Animal Train and packed SO many skills into one simple activity!

Here’s what we targeted:
✨ Naming animals
✨ Animal sounds (Moo! Neigh! Baa!)
✨ Identifying body parts (eyes, ears, nose, feet)
✨ WH-questions (“Where is the cow?”)
✨ Gestures + pointing
✨ Early sentence expansion (“I see a cow!”)
✨ Turn-taking & expectant waiting

Simple toy… BIG language opportunities 🙌

Speech therapy doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s about:
✔️ Modeling
✔️ Pausing
✔️ Creating opportunities
✔️ Following your child’s lead

Want to know how to turn everyday play into powerful language growth? I offer parent coaching so you can confidently carry these strategies over at home 💬💡

You are your child’s MVP 🏆 — I’m just here to coach you.

Message me if you’d like support! 💛

04/05/2026

He is risen! ✝️🌅

This Easter we celebrate the greatest hope of all — Jesus conquered the grave and gave us new life.

At Made for More Pediatric Therapy, this truth is close to our hearts. We believe every child is made for more — created with purpose, value, and incredible potential.

Today we celebrate the love, grace, and new beginnings we have through Jesus. May your day be filled with joy, family, and the reminder that you are deeply loved and wonderfully made.

Happy Easter! 🐣🌷

04/04/2026

Crawling might seem like just a cute milestone, but it’s actually doing big work for your child’s brain — especially for future reading and writing! 🧠📚

When babies crawl, they are building the foundation skills for literacy in several powerful ways:

🔹 Crossing Midline
Crawling requires babies to move opposite arms and legs together. This strengthens the brain’s ability to coordinate both sides of the body — a skill needed later for tracking words across a page while reading and writing left to right.

🔹 Visual Tracking
As babies crawl, their eyes constantly move between their hands, the floor, and what’s ahead of them. This helps develop smooth eye movements, which are essential for following lines of text when reading.

🔹 Hand Strength & Stability
Weight bearing through the hands during crawling builds the shoulder and hand stability children need later for holding pencils, coloring, and writing.

🔹 Body Awareness (Proprioception)
Crawling gives strong sensory input to joints and muscles, helping children develop body awareness, attention, and regulation — all important for sitting, focusing, and learning in the classroom.

🔹 Brain Communication
Cross-body movement during crawling strengthens the connection between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, supporting skills like language, reading comprehension, and problem solving.

💡 Even if your child skipped crawling, don’t worry! You can still support these skills through play:
• Bear crawls
• Crab walks
• Tunnel crawling
• Obstacle courses
• Wheelbarrow walks

Movement builds the brain — and the brain builds readers. 📖✨

04/03/2026

Today we remember the sacrifice that changed everything. ✝️

On Good Friday, we reflect on the incredible love Jesus showed on the cross. What looked like the darkest day in history became the greatest act of grace the world has ever known.

Because of His sacrifice, we have hope, forgiveness, and the promise of new life.

At Made for More Pediatric Therapy, we believe every child is created with purpose and made for more, and today we’re grateful for the love that made that possible.

Sunday is coming. ❤️

04/02/2026

Today is World Autism Awareness Day 💙

It’s super important to shift our focus and realize that awareness is just the starting point.

At Made for More, we believe in seeing the whole child. Not a diagnosis. Not a checklist. Not a set of “delays.”
A child with strengths, preferences, personality, and a voice — even if that voice doesn’t sound like everyone else’s.

Communication is more than words.
It’s pointing, leading, eye gaze, gestures, sounds, devices, pictures, connection.

Every single one of those ways is valid.

As a speech therapist, my goal isn’t to make children fit into a box — it’s to help them be understood and to help others learn how to meet them where they are.

So today & everyday, let’s lean into:
💙 Acceptance over assumptions
💙 Connection over correction
💙 Progress over perfection

These kiddos are made for more — and it’s our job to believe it first. 🫶🏼

04/01/2026

🎉 Why we LOVE Giant UNO in Speech Therapy! 🃏

Giant UNO = BIG fun and even BIGGER language opportunities 💬

This game targets:
✔️ Turn-taking & social skills
✔️ Following directions
✔️ Visual attention & working memory
✔️ Color and number concepts
✔️ Functional language (“your turn,” “skip,” “draw two!”)

The oversized cards slow the game down just enough to encourage communication, problem-solving, and engagement—without it feeling like work.

💡 Therapist tip: Add a speech or language task before each turn to keep goals front and center while kids stay motivated!

Learning through play will always be a win in my book 🏆💙

03/31/2026

🧠💛 “Try Another Way” — teaching regulation, not just rules 💛🧠

This simple worksheet opens the door to BIG conversations about emotions, reactions, and problem-solving.

Instead of just asking “What went wrong?” we work through:
✔️ What upset me
✔️ How I react right now
✔️ What’s another way I can try next time

We even talk about the size of the problem (small, medium, large) and whether our reaction matches it 👀⬇️⬆️

Why this is so powerful:
• Builds emotional awareness
• Teaches flexible thinking
• Supports Zones of Regulation concepts
• Helps kids take ownership of their reactions
• Gives concrete alternatives instead of “don’t do that”

How this helps at home & school:
✅Screen time ends
✅Recess is over
✅Homework or chores feel overwhelming

Kids learn that feelings are OKAY—but we can choose how we respond.

💡 SLP/parent tip: Do this after the moment, not during a meltdown. Regulation comes before reflection.

Teaching kids what to do instead is where real growth happens 💬✨

03/30/2026

“Did the Caterpillar Eat It?” — and YES, they’re Velcroed on 🙌

The kids get to:
✨ Pull the pieces off
✨ Decide yes or no
✨ Stick them back down
✨ Self-correct
✨ Retell the story

And let me tell you… that little ripppp sound of Velcro? Instant engagement. 😂

This targets:
🧠 Comprehension
📚 Story recall
🗣️ WH questions
🍎 Vocabulary
💬 Sentence expansion (“The caterpillar did NOT eat the pizza.”)

Hands-on = brains on.
When they can move it, they remember it.

03/29/2026

✨ Understanding Brown’s Stages of Language Development ✨

I found this graphic on Pinterest & loved it, so I wanted to share. As parents, it can be SO helpful to know what grammar skills typically develop and when. One of the ways speech-language pathologists track early grammar growth is through Brown’s Stages, which are based on Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) — basically how long and complex your child’s sentences are becoming 💬

Here’s a quick breakdown:

🟢 Stage 1 (12–26 months)
MLU 1–2
Simple 1–2 word combinations
Ex: “more juice,” “mommy go”

🔵 Stage 2 (27–30 months)
MLU 2–2.5
• -ing (running)
• in/on
• plural -s

🟠 Stage 3 (31–34 months)
MLU 2.5–3
• Irregular past tense (went, fell)
• Possessives (mommy’s)
• Uncontractible copula (It is big.)

🩷 Stage 4 (35–40 months)
MLU 3–3.75
• Articles (a, the)
• Regular past tense (-ed)
• 3rd person present (-s)

🟡 Stage 5 (41–46 months)
MLU 3.75–4
• Irregular 3rd person
• Auxiliary verbs (is/are, was/were)
• Contractible forms (He’s running.)

Remember 💡: These are general guidelines. Every child develops at their own pace, but if your child isn’t combining words by 2 years old or seems behind in grammar development, early support can make a HUGE difference.

If you’re wondering where your child falls — I’m here to help ❤️

Message me anytime for a consultation or parent coaching support. You are your child’s MVP 🏆

03/28/2026

🗣️📊 What happens during an articulation evaluation—and why it matters 📊🗣️

Parents often ask what an articulation evaluation actually looks like. The answer? It’s child-friendly, play-based, and incredibly important for communication, confidence, and learning.

What happens during an articulation evaluation:
✔️ Your child is asked to name pictures, repeat words, and talk during play
✔️ We listen for specific sound errors (like leaving sounds off, substituting sounds, or distortions)
✔️ Speech is analyzed at the word, phrase, and conversational level
✔️ We look at how errors impact intelligibility—how well others understand your child

No pressure. No “testing table” stress. Just skilled listening and intentional play.

Why articulation matters beyond speech:
📚 Literacy:
Speech sounds are directly tied to phonemic awareness, spelling, and reading. If a child can’t hear or say a sound correctly, it can impact how they learn to read and write it.

👫 Social skills:
Being understood helps children join conversations, make friends, and feel confident speaking up. Frequent breakdowns can lead to frustration or withdrawal.

🧠 Academic confidence:
Clear speech supports classroom participation, oral responses, and overall engagement.

Early support makes a BIG difference. Clear speech opens doors—to learning, friendships, and confidence 💬✨

03/27/2026

MAGNETILES + VISUAL BUILD CARDS = 🔥 EXECUTIVE FUNCTION MAGIC 🔥

Y’all… these magnetile build sheets (dinosaur 🦖, umbrella ☂️, and more!) are SO much more than just a “fun activity.”

Here’s what we’re really targeting in speech:

🧠 Visual processing – looking at the model and figuring out what pieces are needed
🧠 Working memory – holding the design in mind while building
🧠 Planning & organization – “What do I build first?”
🧠 Problem-solving – “That doesn’t match… what needs to change?”
🧠 Following directions – step-by-step construction
🧠 Flexible thinking – adjusting when it falls apart (because it will 😅)
🗣️ Language expansion – describing shapes, colors, size, position

We’re practicing phrases like:
• “I need two triangles.”
• “The square goes on the bottom.”
• “That doesn’t match the picture.”
• “Let’s try again.”

This is how we build:
✨ Stronger thinkers
✨ More independent learners
✨ Kids who don’t shut down when things get tricky

It looks like play.
It feels like play.
But it’s building the brain.

If your child struggles with planning, attention, working memory, or frustration tolerance — structured building tasks like this are GOLD.

Want to learn how to use toys like this intentionally at home? I offer parent coaching to help you turn everyday play into powerful brain-building moments

03/26/2026

☀️ Summer is coming… and 8 weeks can make a BIG difference. ☀️

If your child struggled this year with reading, speech sounds, working memory, attention, or confidence — summer is not the time to “wait and see.”

It’s the time to build momentum. 💪

At Made for More Pediatric Therapy, I’m offering structured 8-week Summer Boost Plans designed to:

✨ Strengthen literacy skills (especially for students with DIBELS in yellow or red)
✨ Improve speech clarity and expressive language
✨ Build working memory & processing skills
✨ Support executive functioning
✨ Grow social communication & confidence
✨ Prevent the “summer slide”

Eight weeks of consistent, targeted support can:
✔️ Close skill gaps
✔️ Increase confidence before the new school year
✔️ Reduce back-to-school stress
✔️ Help your child walk in stronger, not behind

This isn’t busy work.
This is intentional, research-based, progress-driven therapy with optional parent coaching so you know exactly how to support at home.

Spots are limited for summer scheduling. If you’ve been thinking about extra support… this is your sign. 🌿

Message me or email tiffanycaterspeechtherapy@gmail.com to reserve your child’s 8-week Summer Boost Plan.

Let’s make this a summer of growth — not regression. 💛

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Sicily Island, LA

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