How to Play Peek-a-boo! Advice for Parents with Toddlers with Developmental...
GAMES FOR TODDLERS Playing peek-a-boo is a time-honored ritual between babies and parents. Many times parents of young children with developmental delays miss out on this fun because they’re not sure...
View ArticleTherapy Tip of the Week for 3.14.13
Using Social Games like Peek-a-boo with Toddlers: ? Learning to play a social game like Peek-a-boo is CRITICAL first step in helping a child learn to understand and use words. Click here...
View Article5 Reasons to Use Simple, Homemade Activities with Toddlers
While I love toys as much (probably more!) as any SLP I know, I have also learned to value very simple homemade activities for toddlers. I’ve come to think of these activities as “games,” and that’s...
View ArticleClip from Steps to Building Verbal Imitation Skills in Toddlers on DVD
Here’s an excerpt from my new course for SLPs and other pediatric therapists who treat toddlers. For more information, click here. The post Clip from Steps to Building Verbal Imitation Skills in...
View ArticlePodcast for Using a Modified Cycles Approach for Toddlers
Today I had a great show with SLP Dawn Moore who shared how she targets speech sounds in very young children with phonological disorders. A Cycles Therapy approach exposes young children to speech...
View ArticleEmail of the Week…Help for Late Talkers
I love to hear from moms who send in feedback about my products, but when a DAD takes the time to email me, well… it just makes my day!! Today I received this… “We were very excited to get this to help...
View ArticleIdeas for Fine Motor and Cognitive Skills – Therapy Tip of the Week for 3.12.14
Therapy Tip of the Week is back!!! I’m so excited to share this darling idea for making ribbon toys. Beyond being fun for toddlers, this homemade activity targets fine motor, cognitive, sensory, and...
View ArticleBubbles! Therapy Tip of the Week for 3.19.14
Don’t you love bubbles? Me too! But there’s lots more to work on than teaching a child to say “bubble” or “pop.” Watch for the skills we target long before we realistically expect a child to talk! For...
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Easter Therapy Guide
Easter’s coming! Here’s a new Therapy Guide from teachmetotalk.com with over 25 variations of FUN, EASY, and CHEAP activities to use with toddlers and young preschoolers in the upcoming weeks. You’ll...
View ArticleBody Parts! Therapy Tip of the Week for 4.3.14
When I asked for suggestions for Therapy Tip of the Week, a mom emailed me to say she needed some new, fun ideas for helping her son learn body parts. Watch the video for my best tricks and 4 cute...
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Fall Therapy Ideas for Toddlers…Squirrels!
Squirrel Therapy Activities for Toddlers Can you believe it’s November already? You’ve probably used all of your standard therapy ideas for this time of year by now, so this week I want to share a few...
View ArticleToys for Kids who Prefer Visual Input…Therapy Tip of the Week for 11.12.14
In this teachmetotalk.com Therapy Tip of the Week pediatric speech-language pathologist Laura Mize, M.S., CCC-SLP, begins a 3 part series with tips for using toys with kids who prefer visual input....
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Highlights from St Louis from teachmetotalk.com
So here’s me yesterday bright and early in St. Louis waiting at the sign in table for our group of therapists who seemed to love toddlers just as much as I do! We spent a great day together during my...
View ArticleThanksgiving Ideas for Toddlers from teachmetotalk.com
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday! But holidays are usually an abstract concept for young children to understand, even those who are talking! We can still introduce seasonal therapy activities that...
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Fall Therapy Ideas for Toddlers… Pumpkins
Do you still have a pumpkin or two lying around? The ones on my front steps are still hanging in there! If you have a couple left, let me share a few speech therapy ideas for fall that toddlers love!...
View Article#248 What Works To Help a Toddler Learn To Talk… Part 2
The podcast is FINALLY back!! I am happy to be WELL and no longer coughing (for the most part!) so we’re picking back up with this week’s show. I finished the topic from the last show, way back in...
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teachmetotalk.com in Chicago… November 20, 2014
I’m in COLD Chicago today teaching Early Speech-Language Development: Taking Theory to the Floor. Despite the windy weather, it was a fabulous day with a room full of SLPs and Developmental Therapists...
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Thanksgiving Week Activities… Speech Therapy for Toddlers
Hello all of you last minute planners! Calling all SLPs and EI Specialists, Developmental Therapists, Developmental Interventionists or whatever they call “teacher people” in your state birth to 3...
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Fascinating Research about Simplifying Language to Help Toddlers Learn to Say...
I just love a good Ted Talk. How about you? I first heard this one when it was brand new in last year and I have thought about it and thought about it and thought about it. I’ve decided to share it so...
View Article#251 Vocabulary Development for Toddlers Who Seem “Stuck”
In this week’s show I answered a question from an SLP Assistant about helping a verbal toddler expand vocabulary when they appeared to be “stuck.” I read her question and then discussed how I approach...
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