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  • 5 Tips for Eliciting the /k/ and /g/ Sounds in Speech Therapy

5 Tips for Eliciting the /k/ and /g/ Sounds in Speech Therapy

Do you have any children struggling to say those tricky /k/ and /g/ sounds?  Jenna Rayburn from Speech Room News is here to help!  Check out these 5 tips...ok, well it's really more like 7 or 8 tips...to help your children or students say that tricky /k/ and /g/

  • How to Find the Best Speech Therapy Apps Using Evidence-Based Practice

How to Find the Best Speech Therapy Apps Using Evidence-Based Practice

There are a TON of apps in the app stores that can be used for speech therapy.  How do you know which ones will help and which ones are a waste of time and money?  Jessica Solari from Consonantly Speaking joins us in this video to show us how

Cycles Approach for Speech Therapy | Steps and Therapy Plan

What is the Hodson Cycles Approach to Speech Therapy? An amazing speech-language pathologist named Barbara Hodson created the cycles approach, sometimes called the Cycles Phonological Remediation Approach as a way to help children with many phonological processes make faster progress in speech therapy.  Hodson's research showed that

  • Speech and Language Kids

Speech and Language Kids | Speech Therapy for Kids

Speech-Language Professionals Increase your confidence and decrease your stress with resources for SLPs, SLPAs, SaLTs, etc. Resources for Speech-Language Professionals Educators Boost speech and language skills for your struggling students.  Help for teachers, special educators, paras, therapists, etc. Resources for Educators

Frontal Lisp/Interdental Lisp | Speech Therapy Ideas & Word Lists

What Is a Frontal Lisp? Let’s start at the beginning. A frontal lisp, also known as an interdental lisp, occurs when a child says the /s/ and /z/ sounds with the tongue pushed too far forward. This causes /s/ and /z/ to sound more like “th”. Frontal

Phonological Awareness Hierarchy, Skills, and Goals

What is Phonological Awareness? Phonological awareness refers to a set of skills that children typically develop in the preschool years as pre-reading skills. These include skills where the child begins to understand how words are made up of individual sounds and those sounds can be

Phonological Processes: Definition, Examples, and Therapy

What Are Phonological Processes? Phonological processes are patterns of sound replacements that children use to simplify their speech.  When a child is young, he hears the speech sounds of the language used around him, but he can't yet produce all of them.  Children don't sound like adults when they

Speech Sound Resource Page

What Are Speech Sound Disorders? Most children naturally learn to say sounds correctly by hearing other people say them.  There are certain sounds that are typically acquired earlier and others that come a little later.  For example, it's perfectly normal for a small child to say "tat" for "cat"

R Therapy: A Case Study

Ok everyone, I’m trying out a new style of post to see what you, my readers, think.  This will be a case study of a child that I have worked with and the r therapy I conducted with this child.  It will give you an idea of how

How to Teach Speech Sounds: Step By Step Guide

How to Teach Speech Sounds: Step-by-Step Guide In this episode, I give a step-by-step guide how to teach sounds.  Also, in the quick tip, I share how you can download my free e-book that gives you a step-by-step process for improving your child's speech at home. Listen

Speech Sounds by Age (and How to Teach Them)

Speech Sounds by Age: When and How to Teach Speech Sound Pronunciation Join The Hub (Free Trial Available) What are Speech Sounds? Speech sounds are the sounds in our language that we use to make up words.  Each speech

  • Hot-Cocoa Themed Speech and Language Activities

Hot Chocolate Activities for Speech and Language

We’re right in the middle of winter now and one of my favorite winter-time treats is hot chocolate!!  This week, I'm creating hot chocolate activities for speech and language development so you can see all the fun you can have with it! For all my dairy-free and casein-free friends

5 Year Old Speech Checklist | Speech and Language Milestones

5-Year-Old Speech Checklist: Speech and Language Milestones This page is all about 5 year old speech and language skills.  Keep in mind that these milestones are based on research about typically-developing children but this information is not meant to diagnose a speech-language delay or disorder.  There

4 Year Old Speech Checklist: Speech and Language Milestones

4-Year-Old Speech Checklist: Milestones for Speech and Language This page is all about 4 year old speech and language skills.  Keep in mind that these milestones are based on research about typically-developing children but this information is not meant to diagnose a speech-language delay or disorder.  There

What Is Speech Therapy?

What Is Speech Therapy? Speech therapy is a type of therapy provided by a speech-language pathologist (SLP) to help a child learn how to produce specific speech sounds.  SLPs also provide therapy for other skills, including language, fluency, social/pragmatics, etc.  Often all of these therapies will be included under

  • parent's guide to speech and language disorders

Parent’s Guide to Speech and Language Disorders

Parent's Guide to Speech and Language Disorders Perhaps you've just been told that your child requires speech or language therapy. Or maybe you suspect that your child may have some communication delays.  Either way, it is very helpful to have a basic understanding of speech and language therapy