March Lesson Plans (and what’s in my cart!)
My March Lesson Plans are ready just in time for the big TpT sale on Thursday and Friday!ย Click here to download these for free! Some of the activities on these lesson plans are free activities,…
Fluency
Frustrations (and Fluency)
Frustrations: 1. Although my fertility journey is over, I apparently still have a very difficult time being at an extended gathering with a group of pregnant women. Especially when they are talking about how “if…
A Speech Therapist’s Review of The King’s Speech (updated)
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. My mother told me there was a movie out about a Speech Therapist and a king, and that it could win Academy Awards. So of course I begged…
The Tale of the Turtle and the Rabbit
I have felt guilty about neglecting this blog this year. In previous years, I’d have a spare moment from time to time to update ideas about speech, my family, or a rhyming thought. This year…
Stuttering 102
After learning about the parts of our body that control speech, my student practiced finding “bumps/stutters” (the word used will be determined by the age of the child, and his feelings about the word “stutter”)…
Stuttering 101
In the decade that I’ve been a Speech Pathologist, I’ve only had a handful of children with “fluency disorders” (aka stuttering). And most of those have been very mild. Although stuttering was an early focus…
4 Facts about Stuttering
From the May 2006 issue of Parents Magazine 1. Relax — most kids will stop stuttering by themselves. Young children often stutter a little when they’re first learning to talk, but as many as 75…