Inge Burger Speech Language Therapy Inc

19/11/2025

Echolalia is more than repetition — it can be a meaningful bridge to understanding language, expressing emotions and connecting with others.
Learn more at: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/echolalia

17/11/2025

Neurotypical kids are like spekbooms — they thrive almost anywhere.

Neurodivergent kids are like orchids — they need the right light, water, and care to bloom.

Our job is to nurture, not change, the child in front of us.

13/11/2025

This was not my observation. it was my kiddos. I just drew the picture and wrote it down.

He's different, not less than. We are different. But never less than.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

12/11/2025

Childhood isn’t about never making mistakes — it’s about knowing you’re still loved when you do.
That’s the kind of safety that builds strong, self-aware humans. 💚

Start your mindful parenting journey — take our 3-minute quiz for your step-by-step plan toward calm and connection:
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04/11/2025

🐮 Checkers Mini Shop Goes to the Farm! 🚜

Today, our Checkers Minis packed their bags for a farm adventure! 🌾
We fed the animals with our tiny groceries — because apparently cows love OROS 🧃 and the sheep insisted on some toilet paper rolls 🧻 (don’t ask 🙈).
Then came shopping time:
🍬 Two sweets for the goat (plurals, check ✅),
🍭 one sweet for me (self-control vocab, check 😅),
and careful counting using our shiny R1 and 50c coins 💰 — “Put the OROS next to the cow,” “Toilet paper on the tractor,” and “Coins in the bucket!”
Language, laughter, and a few very sticky farm animals later… mission accomplished! 💬🐷

04/11/2025

Even after a child gets access to sound through hearing aids or a cochlear implant, learning to understand what they hear takes time. This process, called the auditory hierarchy, describes the developmental sequence of listening skills — from detecting sound to understanding spoken language (Erber, 1982; Cole & Flexer, 2019).

An SLP working with a child with hearing loss or auditory processing disorder might:

1️⃣ Start with detection goals (e.g., “Child will respond to environmental sounds”)
2️⃣ Then move to discrimination (e.g., “Child will identify same vs. different sounds”)
3️⃣ Then identification (e.g., “Child will identify words in a closed set”)
4️⃣ And finally comprehension (e.g., “Child will answer questions about a short story”)

Download this brand new graphic for free: https://allisonfors.com/speech-therapy-handouts/

31/10/2025

29/10/2025

Wat het Richard Branson, Jamie Oliver en Tom Cruise in gemeen?

Wel, hulle is drie bekendes wat ten spyte van Disleksie, bekend, beroemd en suksesvol geword het.

Daar is ongelukkig verskeie mites oor Disleksie. Watter een van hierdie stellings klink vir jou bekend?

29/10/2025

28/10/2025

Do bilingual children reach language milestones slower?
No. They reach milestones in the same time frame as monolingual children.

24/10/2025

"What is dyslexia?" Thanks to Decoding Dyslexia California for this infographic. www.DyslexiaConnect.com