Now You're Talking

10/24/2025

✨Movement Meets Speech!✨
In this session, we combined movement with speech and language goals to make learning active, engaging, and fun! 💪💬

We worked on labeling, expanding utterance length (“I want a ___” and “I see a ___”), and following directions while moving, laughing, and connecting. 🙌

Why include movement?
1️⃣ Movement helps kids stay focused and regulated.
2️⃣ It supports language processing and memory.
3️⃣ It builds confidence, coordination, and communication skills.

Every session is individualized to your child’s needs. Whether we’re jumping, reaching, or exploring, each activity is designed to make communication meaningful and motivating. 💙

If your child could benefit from fun, personalized speech therapy, we’d love to help them find their voice one movement at a time! 🗣️✨

10/23/2025

Halloween-themed activities can be a powerful and engaging tool in speech therapy for children and even adults. Incorporating seasonal themes like Halloween can make therapy sessions more enjoyable, meaningful, and effective. Here’s an overview of why Halloween-themed activities are important in speech therapy:

🎃 1. Boosts Motivation and Engagement

Seasonal themes like Halloween naturally excite children.

Activities that involve costumes, spooky stories, or trick-or-treat games make therapy feel like play rather than work.

Higher engagement means clients are more likely to participate actively and sustain attention during sessions.

🗣️ 2. Supports Speech and Language Goals in Context

Halloween offers rich, real-world vocabulary and language concepts:

Vocabulary: “pumpkin,” “witch,” “ghost,” “candy,” “spider web,” etc.

Descriptive language: Discussing costumes, decorations, or scary stories encourages adjectives and sensory words (e.g., “slimy,” “creepy,” “sparkly”).

Concepts and categories: Classifying Halloween items (e.g., things you wear vs. things you eat).

Sequencing and narratives: Retelling events like carving a pumpkin or going trick-or-treating helps with story structure and temporal words (“first,” “next,” “last”).

🧠 3. Encourages Social Communication and Pragmatic Skills

Role-playing (e.g., “trick or treat!”) helps practice greetings, turn-taking, and politeness.

Group activities (like Halloween bingo or scavenger hunts) promote cooperation, topic maintenance, and conversational repair.

🕸️ 4. Targets Speech Sounds in a Thematic Way

You can embed articulation practice into Halloween games (e.g., finding objects with target sounds hidden in a “spooky bag”).

Word lists and tongue twisters can use Halloween vocabulary to keep drills fun and relevant.

🧙‍♀️ 5. Promotes Cognitive-Linguistic and Executive Functioning Skills

Planning a Halloween party or sequencing steps to make a costume supports organization, reasoning, and memory.

Problem-solving can be woven in (“What should we do if we run out of candy?”).

🍬 6. Builds Cultural Awareness and Inclusion

Halloween activities can open discussions about traditions, community, and safet

10/22/2025

We are so excited to announce that Kevin had perfect attendance and won a $50 gift card in our raffle! Attendance and consistency are so important for progress!!! And Kevin has made great progress with Andrea! Congratulations! And keep up your hard work!

10/19/2025

We had fun using our chicka chicka boom boom tree in speech therapy! From letter matching to sound recognition to articulation therapy to using Sounds in Motion to produce Sounds correctly, all the kids had a blast! Making therapy fun is key to success!

10/16/2025

So fun targeting the /L/ sound, while playing with leaves and making piles and jumping into the piles of leaves and singing songs! Gotta love the fall time! And especially love when our clients make connections and feel so proud of themselves when they realize that they can do it and they did it correctly! Love seeing those smiles of success! 😉

10/15/2025

Did you know using ASL (American Sign Language) and visual supports can fast-track language development? 🤟
Research shows that pairing signs and visuals helps children:
🌈 Understand language faster (receptive skills)
💬 Express wants, needs, and feelings earlier (expressive skills)
🤝 Reduce frustration and increase confidence in communication

At Now You’re Talking, we integrate ASL and visuals into therapy to help every child find their voice — whether through words, signs, pictures, or all three! 💙

If your child is struggling to express themselves or understand directions, speech therapy makes all the difference.
📞 Call or DM Now You’re Talking to schedule a session and watch your child’s communication come to life! 🌟

10/13/2025

🍁 FALL SPEECH FUN! 🍁
Every fall activity in our sessions is designed to build speech, language, and confidence — through play, laughter, and connection. 💬✨

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🦃 Turkey Toss
Each toss helps little ones listen, target speech sounds, follow directions, and use clear words — all while staying active and engaged!

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🎃 Pumpkin Faces
We work on describing emotions, labeling ,and identifying as kids design their own silly pumpkin. So many opportunities for new words!

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🍁 Fall Tic-Tac-Toe
Turn-taking, social skills, and flexible thinking — all wrapped up in one cozy fall game!

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🦃 Turkey Ring Toss
A favorite for practicing requests and colors! “I want blue!” “Throw it on the turkey!” Every turn is a chance to communicate.

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🌻 Fall Bingo
Seasonal fun that builds listening, vocabulary, and attention — because learning new words should feel like play.

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🍎 Apple Stack Game
We practice prepositions, critical thinking skills, planning, and patience while stacking apples high. Simple play, big language growth.

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🌰 Alphabet Acorns
A hands-on way to work on letter sounds, vocabulary, and articulation — little acorns, big learning!

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🐿️ Acorn Soup
Kids follow directions, count, and build early comprehension skills!🥣

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🌳 Sneaky Snacky Squirrel
Turn-taking, color naming, and requesting in one adorable game that keeps little hands and minds busy.

💛 Every activity has a purpose
📞Call us today to schedule an appointment 🍂🍂

10/10/2025

As SLP's we use many different strategies and techniques to target speech sounds. We have lots of tools in our SLP toolbox, but one of our favorites is Sounds in Motion!

Sounds in Motion (SIM) uses gross motor movements (big body movements) paired with speech sounds (phonemes) to help children:

Learn to distinguish between different speech sounds (auditory discrimination)

Improve their articulation (production of speech sounds)

Develop phonological awareness (a key pre-reading skill)

Engage physically and kinesthetically with language learning

This multi-sensory approach improves memory, engagement, and sound-symbol association—all critical for literacy.



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10/09/2025

10/09/2025

🌟🎓 Today we celebrate so much more than a graduation — we celebrate growth, determination, and the power of communication! 💬💙

This superstar worked hard week after week, finding his voice, building confidence, and proving that every small step adds up to big progress. 👏✨

We are so proud of all he’s accomplished and can’t wait to see him continue to shine ✨✨✨

10/07/2025

✨ Watch the magic unfold with some bubble fun! 🫧 Every bubble brings laughter, turn taking, new words, socialization, and shared joy! 💬 Bubbles are a fun way to build communication skills like joint attention, requesting, following directions, expressive language, and social interaction all through play! 💙

09/28/2025

Now You’re Talking participated in the Westchester Walk for Apraxia! It was a beautiful day to celebrate children! Every child deserves to find their voice! And we were happy to be apart of this wonderful community! So proud of all the Apraxia Stars!