Walker Scottish Rite Clinic

04/28/2026

Hello Parents!

Here is this week's resource.

The “200 by Two” Parent Resource from California Speech-Language-Hearing Association provides trusted information to help families understand how communication skills develop in the early years. It includes helpful tools, videos, and links to guide you in recognizing age-appropriate language milestones and knowing when to seek support.

This resource can help you:
• Learn what communication skills to expect in young children
• Recognize early signs that extra support may be needed
• Understand when to reach out for an evaluation or services
• Access additional parent-friendly tools and information

Early language development happens quickly, especially in the first few years, and having the right information can help you feel more confident supporting your child.

🔗 Learn more here:

The California Speech-Language-Hearing Association has assembled these curated resources to help parents learn more about where a child is on the path to age-appropriate language skills and determine if intervention or support is needed.

04/26/2026

🐢Can you identify locations where Myrtle Walker, philanthropist and artist, gifted her large turtle sculptures? Happy heavenly birthday, Myrtle! Add your photos too! 🎉 🐢

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04/22/2026

📚 This Week’s Literacy Tip for Parents

Looking for simple ways to support your child’s reading and writing at home? Literacy skills can grow through fun, everyday activities you do together as a family!

Here are some easy ideas you can try this week:

• ✏️ Write a short story with your child using the day’s events or their imagination.
• 📞 Call Dial-A-Story (416.395.5400) to listen to a story with your child anytime! The service is available in 16 different languages.
• 💻 Involve distant family members in the enjoyment of reading by sharing a book together through video chat apps such as Zoom or FaceTime.
• 🎭 Make puppets of your child’s favorite literary characters. Use these puppets to act out a scene from the book or to reimagine a scene in a different way.
• 💌 Help your child write to a pen pal. Whether it’s a distant friend or family member, consistently writing to a pen pal fosters important writing and storytelling skills.

Literacy enhances language development as reading and writing help children build vocabulary, understand sentence structure, and express their ideas more clearly.

For more ideas check out: https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2017/11/02/resources-to-support-family-literacy

Research presented by the National Center for Education Statistics has proven that family engagement is one of the most important factors of literacy development, and that children enter kindergarten at a higher reading level when they have a positive learning environment at home. When literary succ...

04/19/2026

🎉Way to go!! We will miss this sweet smiling face, but we're so proud of her! Thanks to her parents for trusting us with her care! 🎉
Let's all help the next child on our waiting list: www.srclinic.org/donate



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04/18/2026

Happy Week of the Young Child! Reading with your child builds vocabulary, sparks curiosity, and helps them grow their future literacy skills. Try exploring new words by connecting what you read to real-life experiences! ❤️📖
Learn more here: https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/tyc/winter2024/big-words-little-learners
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04/16/2026

Go Cardinals! Thanks for an amazing on-field experience for some of our young clients to watch batting practice. Plus Oli Marmol took some time with the kids! It's always a great day at the ballpark!

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04/15/2026

Hello Parents!

📚 This Week We’re Highlighting Literacy

Strong reading skills start with strong language skills. This week, we’re sharing a helpful resource for families who want to support their child’s reading and language development at home.

The guide below from Reading Rockets breaks down the basics of how children learn to read and offers simple, practical tips you can use during everyday routines like reading together, talking about stories, and building vocabulary.

This is a great place to start if you’re wondering:
• How reading develops
• How to support your child at home
• What skills build strong readers

🔗 Reading Rockets – Reading 101: A Guide for Parents
https://www.readingrockets.org/literacy-home/reading-101-guide-parents

It’s not an easy thing, learning to read and write. Discover what it takes to build important literacy skills, and how you can help your children grow as readers, writers, and thinkers!

04/09/2026

Snowcones? Yes, please! Happy Wellness Week on the campus of Maryville University! Thanks to all the students who stopped by our booth to learn more about the Walker Clinic's services.

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04/07/2026

💛 Autism Awareness Month Resource 💛

Looking for a fun, family-friendly way to support your child’s understanding of autism? Check out the Sesame Workshop Autism Initiative!

This amazing resource uses familiar characters from Sesame Street, like Julia, a character with autism, to teach children about acceptance, inclusion, and understanding differences.

💡 Why it matters:
Resources like this help children learn that everyone communicates and experiences the world in different ways—and that’s something to celebrate 💙

👉 Explore here: https://sesameworkshop.org/what-we-do/autism/

Sesame Workshop is committed to breaking barriers and increasing autism acceptance with our See Amazing in All Children initiative.

04/05/2026

Happy Easter! 🐰

04/04/2026

April showers bring...Canadian Geese?! 😊No foolin'! Walker Pond at The Magic House, St. Louis Children's Museum has fish, and Walker Pond (aka bioswale) at Walker Hall has geese (sometimes).

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04/02/2026

We had a great week with all of our princes and princesses! All the kids are royalty at the Walker Scottish Rite Clinic. 👑

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