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Check out my blog to read all about speech sound disorders. Topics include the Cycles Approach for phonological processes, Minimal Pairs Therapy, speech sound assessments and more!
Speech Sound Disorders in Early Intervention: Your Go-To Guide!
Feel confident treating speech sound disorders in the early intervention population. How to assess and treat speech sound disorders in toddlers and preschoolers using play based speech therapy techniques and tips.
How to Use Minimal Pairs in Speech Therapy to Treat Phonological Disorders
How to do minimal pairs therapy in speech therapy for children with phonological disorders. We outline the steps to minimal pairs therapy so you can feel confident working with children with speech sound disorders.
Visual Cue Cards for Speech Therapy: Why You Should Be Using Them!
Why we should be using visual cue cards in speech therapy. More importantly, why it is better to use real life mouth photos versus cartoon or drawn visual cue cards.
The Building Blocks of Communication: The Importance of Syntax in Preschool Speech Therapy
How to target syntax and grammar in preschool speech therapy. Different interventions for grammar and syntax to use in speech therapy.
Home Practice for the Cycles Approach for Phonological Disorders: To Send or Not to Send!
Do you give homework when using the Cycles Approach in speech therapy? What homework do you give when using the Cycles Approach? The Cycles Approach was developed by Barabara Hodson to treat phonological disorders in young children.
Targeting Stopping with the Cycles Approach
Do we target stopping when using the Cycles Approach for phonological disorders? The blog tells you everything you need to know about targeting stopping when using Hodson’s Cycles Approach.
Intrusive Schwa and Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech
How to treat intrusive schwa in childhood apraxia of speech
The Ultimate Guide to Speech Intelligibility in Toddlers
How much of a toddler’s speech should I understand? How much if a toddler’s speech should strangers understand? Do toddlers need speech therapy?
Everything You Need to Know About Toddlers and Speech Sound Disorders
How to identify and treat speech sound disorders in toddlers. Does my toddler have a speech problem? How to fix speech sound disorders in toddlers.
Why We Need to Work on Vowels in Speech Therapy
Why vowel sounds are important for speech sound production and how to target vowel sounds in speech therapy.
Why You Need to Supplement a Speech Sound Assessment
How to supplement a standardized assessment of speech sounds with an informal assessment of speech sound disorders for preschool and school-aged speech therapy
Using Sound Effects, Symbolic Words and Exclamatory Words in Early Intervention and with Apraxia of Speech
How to use sound effects, symbolic sounds, and exclamatory words in speech therapy with late talkers and children with childhood apraxia of speech.
6 Essential Components of a Speech Sound Assessment
6 must-have components of a speech sound assessment
My Go-To Resources to Learn About Speech Sound Disorders
My favorite resources to learn more about different treatment approaches for speech sound disorders. Covers the Cycles Approach, Multiple Oppositions, Minimal Pairs, Maximal Oppositions, and Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
The Best Way To Teach Regular Plural Nouns in Speech Therapy
How to teach regular plural nouns in speech therapy activities when working with children with articulation or phonological disroders
Using the Complexity Approach in Speech Therapy? What You Need to Know!
How to use the complexity approach for speech therapy activities when working with phonological disorders in speech therapy
Why I’m Still Using Boom Cards for Speech Therapy
Why I am still using Boom Cards for no prep speech therapy activities. I include my favorite speech therapy Boom Cards!
Minimal Pairs Activities for Speech Therapy: How to Easily Achieve 100 Trials
How to easily achieve 100 trials during minimal pairs speech therapy activities
Free Winter Speech Therapy Materials | Winter Themed Bingo Boards!
Winter themed Bingo for speech therapy activities freebie!