Originally posted July 2, 2010. Updated October 23, 2024. For those of you that have read some of my previous posts on how to teach specific sounds you may have noticed a pattern. That’s because when teaching kids how to say sounds there IS a general pattern to follow even […]
Originally posted May 3, 2013. Updated September 18, 2024. 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 […]
I’m excited to share this post with you on how to teach Story Structure to children. While it was written from my perspective, it was a combined effort with my colleague and dear friend JaNeal Freeman. I have learned so much from her over the past few years about stories. […]
As a Speech-Language Pathologist I am keenly aware of the positive impact exposing our children to a literacy-rich environment can have. It’s a great way to build receptive and expressive language skills as well as prepare our children for a life of literacy. Helping kids with Speech Sound Disorders has […]
Are you one of those people that can’t send a text message without using a million emojis? I am, and so is my 11 year old daughter, and well, most of my friends too! I can’t help it, emojis make me happy. 😀 So when Apple introduced “Stickers” in iOS […]
I’m excited to share my holiday speech mats with you! Simply download them from the free downloads page, print and laminate them and the possibilities are endless. I created these speech mats as a fun and flexible way to target speech and language goals but I have used them for […]
As children learn new words and their vocabulary expands articulation errors are common in their speech. But when articulation errors persist beyond the age at which most children have mastered their speech sounds or if the frequency of errors affects their intelligibility then they may have a speech sound disorder. […]
I’m happy to welcome Scott Prath, M.A., CCC-SLP, the Vice President of Bilinguistics in Austin, Texas to share his expertise on bilingualism and speech disorders with us. Distinguishing between bilingualism and speech disorders is vital when it comes to treating the bilingual population and I hope the information Scott shares […]
School’s out for summer! This sentence can bring parents both relief and a bit of anxiety at the same time. As a parent myself my goal is to not only survive the break, but to enjoy it, and maybe even take it a bit easier then usual while helping my […]
Earlier this month I attended the Utah Speech-Language Hearing Association (USHA) conference where I was both surprised and honored to receive the 2014 Louis M. DeCarlo Clinical Achievement Award for the contribution…
Vowels are typically the first sounds that emerge from our precious little ones and most often not a concern. Starting around 2 months babies begin to “coo” making sounds in the back of their mouth like “ah-ah-ah” and “oh-oh-oh.” By 6 months they have progressed to babbling which involves making sounds…
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
