Mommy Speech Therapy is a blog offering tips on helping your child with speech & language development
Posted by Heidi | Filed under Early Language Development, Improving Articulation, Language Delay
We’ve talked a lot about helping kids with articulation disorders here on Mommy Speech Therapy. I’ve shared my Articulation Screener to help you identify the sounds kids are saying in error as well as an Articulation Goal Tracker to help select the sounds that need to be targeted and keep track of progress. But what [...]
Teaching the R Sound can be very challenging. Learning new ways to make teaching this sound easier fascinates me. I’d like to Thank Gordy Rogers from Articulate Technologies for taking the time to share with us his tricks for teaching this sound and for their (Articulate Technologies) creative solution in developing a useful tool to [...]
When we have kids that are struggling in school it is helpful to know who to turn to and what resources are available to help them. I’d like to thank Frankie Strickland for taking the time to clearly define the role of RTI (Response to Intervention) in the schools, a program designed to help our [...]
Have you ever wondered if your child is saying all the sounds correctly they should be saying for their age, or thought about which sounds your child says incorrectly that makes them difficult to understand? An Articulation Screener can help you answer these questions. Articulation Screeners are used by speech language pathologists to quickly determine [...]
I wanted to let you all know that I’ve added two new PDFs to the worksheets page to download for free! First, I’ve updated the Speech Sound Development chart that was created based on the speech sound norms from the Goldman Fristoe 2. Speech Sound Development charts are often used as a guide in determining [...]
Have you ever noticed how closely related the /f/ and /v/ sounds are? The /f/ sound is made by touching the upper teeth to the lower lip and then breathing out. The /v/ sound is made exactly the same way except for when you make the /v/ sound you “turn on” your voice. Knowing this [...]
Special thanks to Sherry Artemenko for sharing her post on some of the best new games and toys that enhance language learning for kids. I am so excited to pick up a couple of these myself to start using in therapy as well as with my own kids! I have always used toys and games [...]
Hooray! After a year and a half of writing, designing and developing, Articulation Station for the iPad is finally here and available to download on the App Store! I’m so excited to finally be able to share it with everyone. It’s been my dream to bring my articulation program to life on the iPad and [...]
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I can’t believe the school season is almost here already, and has probably already started for some of you! To celebrate new classes, students, and goals I thought I’d share my “Articulation Goal Tracker” form with all of you. This form can be a beneficial way for both parents and Speech-Language Pathologists to set and [...]
I’m so EXCITED to tell all of you about the project I’ve been working on over the past year. It is a fun, engaging and interactive articulation app for the iPad called “Articulation Station”. The screenshot above is showing the home screen on the app. Articulation Station not only has flashcards that target specific sounds, [...]
No more waiting! You can now download articulation practice worksheets for the following sounds: /b/, /h/, /w/, /f/, /v/, /n/, ng, j, /r/ and /z/ These have been added to the Worksheets page along with all the other available sound worksheets. I will continue to write posts on how to teach these sounds in the [...]
Did you know that May is Better Hearing and Speech Month? What is Better Hearing and Speech month all about? I believe ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) sums it up great on their site by explaining the meaning of this month and why we celebrate it… As a speech pathologist I absolutely love to see a [...]
My little Scarlet is two months old now. Last night she finally slept for long enough that this morning I feel half way normal. Yay! I decided to sit down and write a post to celebrate a clear mind, which it seems (as of late), doesn’t happen as often as I’d like. In January I [...]
I have found that the most difficult thing for a lot of parents to do when trying to correct their children’s speech errors on their own is to teach that initial correct production of a sound. That is why I was so excited to discover Speech Buddies. While I just recently obtained my own set [...]
I got my iPad a few months ago and I didn’t expect to love it as much as I do. All the fun games and apps aside, it’s made tasks such as checking email (which I’ve never enjoyed) enjoyable. Now I don’t feel like my unread email is looming over my head like the laundry [...]
I am a licensed Speech Language Pathologist and have been working in this field since 2000. I am also a mother to four wonderful kids who keep me busier than ever! I put together this blog to share some of the tips and techniques that have worked for me over the years in teaching kids to improve their speech and more effectively communicate. Thanks for reading and remember it takes time and patience with this stuff but it is so worth it!