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Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) | Meaning, Norms, and Goals
Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) | Meaning, Norms, and Goals for Increasing Sentence Length Mean Length of Utterance: What is MLU? Mean length of utterance, or MLU, refers to the average length of the sentences that a child typically uses. For example, when children
Social Skills Therapy for Kids: How to Teach Social Communication Skills
Social Skills Therapy: How to Teach Social Communication Skills to Children Some children struggle with the social skills necessary to make and keep friends. It can be tricky to figure out exactly why the child is struggling so this may take some observations and lots of self-reflection on
Questions Resource Page
Asking and Answering Questions Children with speech and language delays often have difficulty asking and answering questions appropriately. This is a difficult skill as it requires the child to understand what is being asked, process the question, form an answer, and speak that answer. Or, if the child is
Speech Therapy for Autism: Activities, PDFs, and Info
Speech Therapy for Autism: Activities, PDFs, and Info Autism, also called Autism Spectrum Disorder, is a diagnosis that describes a group of children with a common cluster of symptoms, though the degree of severity for each of those symptoms varies widely from child to child. These symptoms include
Stuttering Therapy for Children
How to conduct stuttering therapy with children On, this episode of the speech and language kids podcast, Carrie Clark reviews the current research on stuttering therapy for children. You will also learn how to conduct this therapy yourself. Note: This information is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed
Screen Time and Speech/Language Delays
Hang in there, we're going to talk about screen time... Oh man do I hate this subject! Not so much as a speech-language pathologist but as a mom. Actually...as a mom of children during a pandemic. This is NOT an easy subject to write about but I know it's
5 Quick Steps You Can Take Today To Get a Child Interested In Therapy
Let me paint you a picture of a little boy named Alex when he first came to me a few months ago: Alex was eight years old (name has been changed for privacy). “There’s nothing wong with my /r/”, he said, with absolutely no /r/ sounds whatsoever. His parents
“What” Questions for Kids | Speech Therapy Activities and Ideas
"What" Questions for Kids: Children with language delays often have difficulty answering questions. When teaching a child to answer questions, it is helpful to teach one question form at a time. This page is all about teaching "what"questions in speech therapy. We will break this skill down
CV, VC, CVC, and CVCV Words | Free Flashcards (Real Photos!)
How and Why to Use CV, VC, CVC, and CVCV Words in Speech Therapy: When working with a child who is not able to speak long words, we can begin improving their speech by teaching them to produce sounds in CV, VC, CVC, and CVCV words. These are
Child/Baby not Responding To Name: How Can We Help?
Child/Baby not Responding to Name: Many parents worry when their baby or toddler is not responding to his name. A child may be ignoring you when you call his name for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, it is just because the child isn't tuned
Baby Speech Therapy: How to Promote Language Development in Infants/Toddlers
Baby Speech Therapy: How to Promote Language Development in Infants/Toddlers Speech Therapy for Babies Congratulations! You’re little bundle of joy is here!! Keep in mind that it’s never too early to start promoting the development of good communication skills. This is especially true if your child was born
Social Stories for Children with Language Delays
Hello everybody! Today’s post is inspired by a reader who was wondering how she can use social stories with her autistic son to help him understand basic social situations. Here are a few ideas of how you can use social stories with your child as well. These social stories
Free Printable Speech and Language Resources
Free Printable Speech and Language Resources! Being a hero to a child (or many children) with communication disorders is hard. Let's be honest, there are a lot of children out there who need our help and not enough of us to go around. So that's why we're giving
Playground Activities for Speech and Language
It’s finally Spring! That means time to go outside!! All kids love going to the park or the playground, but did you know that you can work on speech and language skills while you’re there as well?? You can!! Enjoy these playground activities for speech and language development! Playground
AAC Devices for Kids: What are They and How to Use Them
What are AAC Devices? AAC devices are augmentative/alternative communication systems that allow a person to communicate with those around them without speaking. There are many different types of AAC but the most common are high-tech AAC Devices that allow a person to push a button to
How to do Speech Therapy at Home: Podcast 3
In this episode, I discuss how to get your child to sit down and do speech therapy at home with you. Also, in the quick tip, I will tell you about a resource that has helped me keep my students engaged and doing work with me for a very long
Teaching Pronouns – Speech Therapy | “He”, “She”, “They”
Join the Hub to Access (Free Trial) Teaching Pronouns in Speech Therapy Teaching pronouns in speech therapy is a common target because children with language delays often have difficulty with using the correct pronouns in conversation, especially the "he" and
Mumbling: 5 Steps to Cure It In Children
How to Reduce Mumbling in Children: So what do you do with the child who knows how to say all of her sounds correctly but in conversational speech she mumbles and doesn’t articulate well? That was the exact question I got from a reader this week and
Book Review: My Toddler Talks
When Kimberly Scanlon emailed me about reviewing her book I immediately went and checked out her website at www.ScanlonSpeech.com and I was very excited at what I found! Kimberly, a speech-language pathologist from New Jersey, has created a website for her private practice that has great speech and language
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
