The Speech Scoop

🤩 Spark your child’s imagination and potential with PLAY & LEARN SUMMER CAMP!

💫Comment “CAMP” to get all the details plus your 15% OFF promo code to use at checkout for a limited time only!!

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801-B Main Street
Belmar, NJ 07719

🗓️ August 5-9
🗓️ August 26-29
⏰ 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

👧👦 Ages 2-4

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Hi friends and fam!

🌟I’m thrilled to announce I’m hosting a play-based, toddler learning summer camp for the weeks of

August 5-9
August 26-30th

At The Well Belmar

➡️Please share or tag anyone with kiddos ages 2-4 who are looking for some play-based learning & fun!

Activities include:
Interactive Story Time📚
Guided, Language-Based Play🚂
Fine Motor Skill Practice🤏
Music and movement🎸
Sensory Integration🌊
Literacy Themed Crafts🎨

Daily Themes:
Under the Sea🐠
Dinosaurs🦖
Camping🏕️
ABCs/123s🔤
Animal Safari🦒
Construction🚜
And more!

🤩Use code: FRIENDS15 for 15% off at checkout!

Learn more here:
https://thespeechscoop.com/classes/summer-camps-2024

The Speech Scoop

Will loved doing this reel for Lovevery ❤️

TikTok · Lovevery 906 likes, 4 comments. “Why should you start reading to your baby today? 🤔 Remember, it's okay if your baby isn't interested in reading at first. It can last for less than a minute! Keep reading each day, make it playful, and follow their lead. Whether they want to flip pages or chew on the boo...

🤗 Comment “PLAY” to be sent a link to check out all of my play class offerings!!

✅ Want to get out of the house?
✅ Looking to meet & socialize with local moms?
✅ Need a safe and supportive environment for play?
✅ Want to boost your child’s creativity and speech/language skills?

👀 Look no further! You’ve found a perfect match!!

📍All classes are held at the beautiful Montessori play space in Belmar, NJ.

💻 Visit TheSpeechScoop.com for more info and services!

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👀 Imitation Hierarchy for spoken language

🌟 Comment “LINK” to be automatically be sent an UPDATED 2 page copy for free! AND a link to the YouTube Video “Increasing Imitation Skills in Toddlers!”

If you had already downloaded this FREE resource, you should have been sent an updated copy today!

🎙️This chart is designed to give parents a starting point for helping their child build imitation skills towards spoken language.

⬆️ Starting at the BOTTOM and working your way up. Children learn to imitate gross motor skills (large muscle movements) before they imitate smaller muscle movements (gestures).

1. Actions with objects: your child can learn that they can do things you can do!
2. Gestures: symbolic representations of words
3. Facial expressions: big mouth movements, kissy faces and other non-verbal actions
4. Intentional vocalizations: making sounds directed TO someone
5. Sound words: onomatopoeia (bang, crash, boom!) or interjections (uh oh! Oh no! Whoops!)
6. Verbal routines: Fill in the blanks for frequently used phrases like “One, Two, ___” or “Ready, Set, __!”
7. Power Words: Action words that get things done!! “Help! Stuck! Mine! No!” words that are motivating for your child to say and help them to communicate a need or request.
8. Single Words: words that are important to your child (names of parents/caregivers, pets, favorite items, etc)

❓Questions? Drop them below! 👇

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What counts as a word?
* Word approximations (e.g. “doe” for go or “ba” for “ball”)
* Actual words (mama/mom)
* Exclamatory/sound words (e.g. “uh-oh”, “beep”, “whoa”, “gulp”)
* Animal sounds (e.g. “moo”, “meow”, “baa”, “maa”, “woof”, “roar”)
* Sign language (e.g. “more”, “all done”, “help”)⠀

💥If you child says any of these words consistently, independently and with intention, then boom! It’s a word!

❓“MILESTONE” - defined as what “MOST” children are able to do at a certain age (approximately 90% of children at this age say the number of words listed).‍

❗️”AVERAGE” - reflects a mean number of words being used by a certain age group (approximately 50% of children at this age say the number of words listed).

⚠️The large gap between averages and milestones is because SLPs often are referring to the average number of words spoken as a reference and the AAP, CDC and Mayo Clinic use the milestone as their reference.

💛 If you child is CLOSE to the milestone number of spoken words, I recommend being pro-active vs “reactive” and waiting until your child’s next doctor visit. Instead, reach out to your state’s early intervention program for a free or low-cost evaluation and also discuss your concerns in detail with your pediatrician. To wait and see is to lose valuable intervention time during the most critical period of development.

♥️If you child is CLOSE to the average number of spoken words, check out all of my free resources for parents in my bio!

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👀 The Language Imitation Hierarchy!

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⬆️ This language hierarchy chart (starting from the bottom) can be used AFTER your child has met all of the Pre-Verbal Skills (last post)!

1. Actions with objects: does your child copy things that you do with toys?.

2. Gestures or signs: gestures and signs are the best indicator of a child’s later developing language skills because signs are symbolic representations of words!.

3. Nonverbal actions: imitating facial expressions and big mouth movements

4. Intentional Vocalizations: making sounds directed TO someone.

5. Sound words: AKA onomatopoeias (bang! Boom! Crash!) interjections (gulp, mmmm, yum) exclamatory words (uh oh! Oh no! Weee! Whoa!) animal noises (Moo! Baaaa! Meow!)

6. Verbal Routines: fill in the blanks for “ONE, TWO…. ___!” Or “READY, SET…. ___!”

7. Functional Words: “HELP! Mine! Stuck! No! Stop! More! Eat! Milk! Up!” etc.

8. Single words: a variety of single words that are important to your child: mama, dada, bubba, sissy, nana, grandma, pets names, car, truck, ball, water, blanky, etc!.

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🔗 Link in bio!

➡️ Comment “Link” to be automatically sent a link to my prelinguistic language skills YouTube video where I go into detail about each skill along with tips of how to work on them at home!

🌟Pre-verbal skills are for ALL ages!

💪 Set your child up for success with all of the free tips, tricks and information in the video!

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⚠️ This is a judgement free zone. There is no shaming. I share this because technology is on the rise and we previously did not know how screen time might have affected children.

🧠 This is purely for your knowledge and awareness. Personally, I was stunned at the numbers.

🌈💕 Neurodiverse children learn differently and screen time CAN have a *positive* effect on them, especially since many autistic toddlers learn through a video recording of seeing another child completing a task. The study referenced above did not differentiate between neurotypical and neurodiverse populations so we cannot assume that the results apply to neurodiverse populations.

❌ Banning screen time until age 3-4 is unrealistic for most families so….

✅ Check out all of my favorite ways you can make screen time FUNCTIONAL for speech & language development.
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💖 I’m thankful to be a part of the and community where almost all of my insta friends have shared their struggles behind the mask of social media. 💪 we’re all in this together.
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Support from the very start ❤️

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🤩 Here are some awesome tips for parents and caregivers of things to do at home to get your little one talking! (from a pediatric speech therapist!)

➡️ Always speak with your pediatrician if you have concerns about speech/language development or would like a referral for an evaluation.

❓Have a question? Leave it below!

❤️ Be sure to like and save this post for later!

🗣️Follow for tons of free speech/language tips, tricks and resources!

✅ Check out our YouTube channel with TONS of free videos specifically designed to help parents & toddlers at home!

Making plans is the best way to guarantee that your kid will be sick that day 🤷🏼‍♀️ just me?

I’ve never felt more seen 🤦🏼‍♀️

👶 Want to start helping your little one talk but not sure where to start?!

✅ Check out these super important FUNCTIONAL communication words below!

🤔 Remember to focus on teaching the VOWELS in words first!

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🔗 Link in bio

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Here’s a fun way to work on prepositions (or you might call them spatial or positional concepts)!

FIRST, start with a transparent or translucent container. I used this little box, but a cup you can see through works great, too!

ADD any manipulatives you’d like (that will fit under your container). I found these cute little bunnies 🐰🐰🐰 at a while back so I used those. Also, I really like that since they’re all different colors, I can add a color modifier when we practice following directions.

In the past I’ve also used little people, Pokémon figurines, Power Rangers, Disney figures, or any characters I had lying around. Don’t overthink it!

FINALLY, practice prepositions by telling your students where to put each bunny, such as:
“Put the purple bunny NEXT TO the pink box.” “Place the orange bunny INSIDE (or UNDER/BELOW) the box.”

Try teaching and practicing some or ALL of these positions:
UNDER, BEHIND, NEAR, IN FRONT OF, ABOVE, BEFORE, BELOW, OUT OF, OUTSIDE, ON, ON TOP OF, OFF, OFF OF, OVER, UNDER, NEXT TO, INSIDE/INSIDE OF, BETWEEN, BY, BESIDE, BENEATH, FAR FROM, CLOSE TO…

…and have discussions about how similar some of these concepts are (like how under, beneath, and below are very much alike) or how beside, close to, and next to are pretty much interchangeable.

NOTE THAT the “see through” container allows you to work on under/below/inside, etc. - because an opaque container wouldn’t have quite the same effect- and if you’re like me, I forget what I made them put under there. 🤪

☝️If you work with groups, you can let your students give directions to each other (while you give feedback).

👉 You can also have students tell YOU where to place items! I like to get some wrong so they can explain WHY I WAS WRONG, which they take great pleasure in doing. 🤣

Hope this idea💡brings some fun and learning to your language sessions!

DOUBLE TAP if you like this idea, ❤️and SAVE if you think you’ll need to reference it later!

Happy therapizing! 🐇🐇🐇

🚨Brand New Video!🚨

🎥 “DON’T TALK TO YOUR CHILD ALL DAY: 7 Tips for Late Talking Toddlers At Home Speech Therapy”

✅ Based on our most popular IG post in 2022! Check out these 7 tips for parents of how to boost speech & language skills without “talking to you kid all day”

❤️ Make sure to like & share this video post if these videos are helpful for you & your little one!

⬇️ Leave a comment below on what my next video should be!!

🔗 https://youtu.be/6_8-fP2gqfI
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So how’s your week been? 🫠

I do the same thing with my clothes 🤦🏼‍♀️

The TOY aisles at stores can be overwhelming! 😰 AMIRIGHT?!

🌟 Ask yourself “does this toy ___?” (info in post) when shopping for a new toy to decide whether or not it’s good for helping your child meet developmental milestones!

🤷🏼‍♀️ WHAT IS YOUR CHILD’S FAVORITE TOY?

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🚂 Shop all of my favorite toys by age in my Amazon storefront! (🔗 Link in bio!)

🤗 Happy Playing!!

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Great info for parents!

PARENTS!! If you are looking to support your child’s communication with sensory strategies, then make sure you’re registered to attend my upcoming free Sensory-Communication Mini Course for Parents!

We’ll be talking all about why regulation is so important for communication and steps you can take NOW to better support your child’s communication!

(There will be replays if you can’t be there live)

Jan 23-27th - every day from 12-1pm pst!

Link below to save your seat 🥰

https://asdinsideout.mykajabi.com/sensory-communication-mini-course-january

Pretty sure this is an evidence based fact.

🤷🏼‍♀️ What do you think?

The complex world of pre-K play Young kids benefit from play. But what should it look like?

🤷🏼‍♀️ What is your child’s favorite book??

⬇️ Drop it below to create a community resource!

✔️ Be sure to check out my entire list of Book Reccomendations on my Amazon Storefront! (🔗 Link in bio!)

🎥 Looking for tips on reading books with toddlers? Check out our YouTube video “How to read a book with a busy toddler!” (🔗 Link to YouTube in bio)

💻 Download our free parent book resource on Teachers Pay Teachers! (🔗 Link in bio)

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😂 So what were some of yall’s favorites?

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