There are many benefits that reading aloud to children has on their development. Reading to children helps strengthen their comprehension skills, expands their vocabulary, and helps with processing and developing social-emotional skills. In speech therapy, reading is not only a tool for learning, but a method of targeting and carrying over many skills necessary for effective communication. Here are some of the ways reading supports your child’s speech and language development.

Create your personalized visual schedule to help with everyday routines.

Neurodiversity Affirming Conversation Strategies

It's summer time - which often means a lot more time for free play and exploration - and reading! Use this handout as a guide to keep reading all summer long.

With the flowers blooming and the weather turning warm, it is time to transition away from snow days and onto some new seasonal activities. Learn about some of our therapists favorite summer activities for you and your kids with this blog.

Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor-planning disorder of speech production which impacts the message that the brain sends to the articulators (e.g., lips, jaw, tongue) to form and sequence speech sounds. Here we will discuss what treatment realistically looks like for children with CAS, both older and younger.  

Executive functioning skills, like time management and organization, are essential to a child’s growth, learning ability, and success. Learn more about the different skills that make up our executive functioning system in this blog.

A speech and language pathologist has expertise in a variety of different areas and can support development in many more ways than just verbal speech. Learn more about some of the areas your speech therapist can address with this handout.

When referring to the neurodivergent community is important to use language focuses on using language that encourages, accepts and acknowledges the neurodivergent existence. Check out some simple language shifts here.