Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Oct 31, 2011, 11:38 pm
By Jacqueline Kellner-Hiczewski, M.S., CCC-SLP/NYSL, TSHH Becoming a new parent can be overwhelming but at the same time you have now become your child’s first “teacher”.  Communication between infant and parent begins the day he/she is born.  Infants communicate their needs through cries,...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Apr 23, 2010, 10:35 pm
By Karin Howard, M.A., CCC-SLP As parents there are lots of little extra efforts we can make to be supportive of our young children's communication growth. There are many skills involved when children are developing their speech and language. Children learn the ability to make the outward effort to...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Jan 13, 2010, 10:43 pm
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Jan 13, 2010, 10:43 pm
By Karin Howard, M.A., CCC-SLP The communication skills of a newbon are astonishing. In fact, speech and language development visibly occurs immediately after birth. Moments after the birth of my daughter, I looked into her eyes and said "Welcome, Rebekah. We have all been waiting for you." Then, t...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Oct 22, 2009, 1:07 am
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Oct 22, 2009, 1:07 am
Being able to understand question forms and being able to ask questions is an essential part of language development. It's the way we give and get information about our world. Questions lay the foundation for children to participate in conversations, demonstrate their knowledge and gather informatio...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Sep 5, 2009, 5:44 pm
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Sep 5, 2009, 5:44 pm
I want to introduce a wonderful CD and activity book set designed to listen to and engage your child in order to help enhance speech and language skills in a very indirect way. This CD and activity book set was created by Karin Howard, MA, CCC-SLP, a fellow speech/language pathologist, along with Al...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Jun 15, 2009, 4:03 pm
Are you concerned that your child isn't talking as much as you think he should be by his age? Are other children in your playgroup talking a lot more and putting words together more easily and following directions better? There might be more going on than just "he's not picking up words" or "he's ju...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Jan 20, 2009, 10:52 pm
A while back I discovered a website that can be a great support for mom's in all types of situations. The site is http://www.cafemom.com. They have groups you can join on all sorts of topics. You can use forums to ask questions and get support that way or you can read questions and answers that have...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Nov 4, 2008, 11:32 pm
I recently attended a very interesting and eye opening training and thought it would be helpful to share some of the information. The training was on Crisis Prevention (http://www.crisisprevention.com) in the classroom (I work in preschool with special education children). The majority of the emphas...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - Jun 8, 2008, 1:17 pm
As a speech therapist who works with kids, I've been asked this question on more than one occasion so I thought I would address this issue here on this blog. From my own experience, I think this is not true and maybe just one of those things that you heard from your mother and she heard from her mot...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - May 25, 2008, 4:24 pm
When your child is in the midst of a great jump in his language skills (between ages 30 months and 5 years) it's natural that putting sentences together in a fluent way might be difficult. Her brain is like a computer, working to pull up the right words in the right order and at the right time. Whil...
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Tami C. posted an article on Speech Therapy Tips, Language Development - May 20, 2008, 12:19 am
Why not give your apraxic child a way to communicate? Most of what I'm including in today's post are experiences from parents who have a child with dyspraxia and how they have used sign language to help them communicate. Using Sign Language With Children Who Have Apraxia of Speech Often when some...
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