A to Z Speech Therapy

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We added 6 more panels to our Nat Geo Wall this weekend!

A to Z Speech Therapy works with ages 2+ to improve articulation, language, stuttering, and social skills. We are excited to have them join us for the Upstate Homeschool Expo. Stop by their table to learn more about how they can help your student.

www.upstatehomeschoolexpo.com

Today we are at Bob Jones University excited to meet and speak with future SLPs.

Abby, Lizzy, and Hailey spent the last 3 days at the SCSHA conference. They can't wait to bring newly learned information back to the other staff and clients at A to Z.

Our A to Z staff saved Christmas tonight! Thank you Escape Artist Greenville for such a fun night.

The holiday season is here with its crush of big meals, celebrations, shopping, and yes, stress. While getting together with loved ones can be joyful, gatherings large and small can be anxiety-provoking for your students, clients, patients, and their families. This collection of articles offers holiday guidance.

Guidance for Families on Holiday Feeding, Communication, and Noise Challenges The holiday season is here with its crush of big meals, celebrations, shopping, and yes, stress. While getting together with loved ones can be joyful, gatherings large and small can be anxiety-provoking for your students, clients, patients, and their families. This collection of articles offering ho...

Find us at our booth at the Sensory Friendly Trick or Treat at the Children's Museum of the Upstate!

Has your child been having after-school meltdowns? Check out this helpful guide on how to handle it!

How to Handle the After School Meltdown - An Expert Plan! • Mindfulmazing.com What exactly is an after school meltdown? What does an after school meltdown look like? And nine awesome strategies to stop after school meltdowns from happening so frequently.

Meet our newest team member Tatiana! Tatiana received her Bachelors of Science in Communication Disorders from Bob Jones University in May of 2023. She enjoys working with families to promote effective communication and provide a safe therapy environment. She grew up in Puerto Rico and loves visiting her family and friends when she is able to. She enjoys swimming, hiking, and exploring new places, as well as spending time with her fiancé.

Abby's summer feature is Hooray for Fish. Paddle along with Little Fish on a mesmerizing underwater tour of friends spotty and stripy, happy and gripy, hairy and scary, even curly whirly and twisty twirly. From the creator of Maisy comes an eyepopping picture book that is sure to have little ones joining the chorus: Hooray for fish!
Books can be a wonderful way to help support your child's speech-language development. Even if you feel they aren't paying full attention to the story, reading to your child helps foster language and literacy skills while building vocabulary and joint attention. Books that offer repetitive sentence patterns on each page help improve speech automaticity while rhyming books help increase phonemic awareness. Sometimes, reading time with a younger child may mean pointing at different pictures on the pages and labeling them for your child. This is a wonderful way to help your child learn new words while still practicing joint attention to the book and its pictures. For a child who has words (or signs), you can point to the picture and ask them to tell you the name. Receptively, asking your child “Where is the ____” and having them locate the corresponding picture via pointing helps build receptive vocabulary and comprehension. Being silly during reading time (making different characters’ voices, over-emphasizing inflection) is a great way to increase your child’s engagement in the story. Over-emphasizing inflection helps support the acknowledgment of tone of voice and their different meanings which many children with special needs have difficulty understanding. This also helps show your child that reading can be fun and not a chore; a life skill that will continue to serve them through their school years.
*Information from Theracare Pediatric Service

Ellie's summer book feature is The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First Summer. Celebrate summer with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and his friends in this exploration of the season. Young readers can learn all about seasonal sensory experiences, like listening to noisy bugs, feeling the warm sunshine, smelling the yummy scents of a cookout, and so much more!
Books can be a wonderful way to help support your child's speech-language development. Even if you feel they aren't paying full attention to the story, reading to your child helps foster language and literacy skills while building vocabulary and joint attention. Books that offer repetitive sentence patterns on each page help improve speech automaticity while rhyming books help increase phonemic awareness. Sometimes, reading time with a younger child may mean pointing at different pictures on the pages and labeling them for your child. This is a wonderful way to help your child learn new words while still practicing joint attention to the book and its pictures. For a child who has words (or signs), you can point to the picture and ask them to tell you the name. Receptively, asking your child “Where is the ____” and having them locate the corresponding picture via pointing helps build receptive vocabulary and comprehension. Being silly during reading time (making different characters’ voices, over-emphasizing inflection) is a great way to increase your child’s engagement in the story. Over-emphasizing inflection helps support the acknowledgment of tone of voice and their different meanings which many children with special needs have difficulty understanding. This also helps show your child that reading can be fun and not a chore; a life skill that will continue to serve them through their school years.
*Information from Theracare Pediatric Service

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Check out what to expect from a We Stutter Upstate Meeting!

We Stutter Upstate | What to Expect We Stutter Upstate is a supportive group for people who stutter in the greater Greenville, SC area. Together, we help each other accept and cope with our stu...

Hailey's Summer Book Feature is Swimmy by Leo Lionni. In this story, we learn about the importance of working together for the common good and taking risks in order to appreciate what the world has to offer.
Books can be a wonderful way to help support your child's speech-language development. Even if you feel they aren't paying full attention to the story, reading to your child helps foster language and literacy skills while building vocabulary and joint attention. Books that offer repetitive sentence patterns on each page help improve speech automaticity while rhyming books help increase phonemic awareness. Sometimes, reading time with a younger child may mean pointing at different pictures on the pages and labeling them for your child. This is a wonderful way to help your child learn new words while still practicing joint attention to the book and its pictures. For a child who has words (or signs), you can point to the picture and ask them to tell you the name. Receptively, asking your child “Where is the ____” and having them locate the corresponding picture via pointing helps build receptive vocabulary and comprehension. Being silly during reading time (making different characters’ voices, over-emphasizing inflection) is a great way to increase your child’s engagement in the story. Over-emphasizing inflection helps support the acknowledgment of tone of voice and their different meanings which many children with special needs have difficulty understanding. This also helps show your child that reading can be fun and not a chore; a life skill that will continue to serve them through their school years.
*Information from Theracare Pediatric Service

Join us in welcoming our new team member Lizzy! Lizzy received her Bachelor of Science in Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Georgia in 2017 and her Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology from Louisiana State University in 2019. She enjoys using her skills and experience to provide treatment that meets everyone’s unique communication needs and goals. She values creating a safe therapy environment that fosters collaboration among herself, the patient, and their family. Lizzy recently moved from Columbus, GA to Greenville, SC with her husband and dog. She likes to be outdoors, watch rom-com movies, and try new restaurants. Lizzy is so excited to be here and explore Greenville!

Alexis's Summer Book Feature is Judy Moody and The Not Bummer Summer. It’s not bad enough that Mom and Dad are heading to California, leaving Judy and Stink with Aunt Awful (er, Opal), but now two of Judy’s friends are going Splitsville, too. Just when it looks like her summer is going to be BOR-ing- eureka! — Judy comes up with the most thrill-a-delic plan ever. Get ready for a race involving tightrope walking, Scream Monster riding, and way more! Add in a treasure hunt for Judy’s teacher, a midnight stakeout, a runaway ice cream truck, and a dash of Bigfoot, and what have you got? The Judy Moodiest summer ever!
Books can be a wonderful way to help support your child's speech-language development. Even if you feel they aren't paying full attention to the story, reading to your child helps foster language and literacy skills while building vocabulary and joint attention. Books that offer repetitive sentence patterns on each page help improve speech automaticity while rhyming books help increase phonemic awareness. Sometimes, reading time with a younger child may mean pointing at different pictures on the pages and labeling them for your child. This is a wonderful way to help your child learn new words while still practicing joint attention to the book and its pictures. For a child who has words (or signs), you can point to the picture and ask them to tell you the name. Receptively, asking your child “Where is the ____” and having them locate the corresponding picture via pointing helps build receptive vocabulary and comprehension. Being silly during reading time (making different characters’ voices, over-emphasizing inflection) is a great way to increase your child’s engagement in the story. Over-emphasizing inflection helps support the acknowledgment of tone of voice and their different meanings which many children with special needs have difficulty understanding. This also helps show your child that reading can be fun and not a chore; a life skill that will continue to serve them through their school years.
*Information from Theracare Pediatric Service

Sydney's Summer Feature is Bubbles...Up! An everyday visit to the pool transforms into an unforgettable celebration of the water in this remarkable picture book from Jacqueline Davies. In this energetic read-aloud, the words swim off the pages as the underwater world comes to life through lush, dynamic illustrations and visual poetry. Journey to an imaginative world where, always and forever, bubbles . . . rise . . . UP.
Books can be a wonderful way to help support your child's speech-language development. Even if you feel they aren't paying full attention to the story, reading to your child helps foster language and literacy skills while building vocabulary and joint attention. Books that offer repetitive sentence patterns on each page help improve speech automaticity while rhyming books help increase phonemic awareness. Sometimes, reading time with a younger child may mean pointing at different pictures on the pages and labeling them for your child. This is a wonderful way to help your child learn new words while still practicing joint attention to the book and its pictures. For a child who has words (or signs), you can point to the picture and ask them to tell you the name. Receptively, asking your child “Where is the ____” and having them locate the corresponding picture via pointing helps build receptive vocabulary and comprehension. Being silly during reading time (making different characters’ voices, over-emphasizing inflection) is a great way to increase your child’s engagement in the story. Over-emphasizing inflection helps support the acknowledgment of tone of voice and their different meanings which many children with special needs have difficulty understanding. This also helps show your child that reading can be fun and not a chore; a life skill that will continue to serve them through their school years.
*Information from Theracare Pediatric Service

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! Here are some signs of stuttering in children and what caregivers can do to help.

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! Here are some of the ways you can help support an adult with language disorders.

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! Here are some of the identifying signs of language disorders in adults.

We are so thankful for our team!

Congratulations to our newest graduate Grant! Grant has been with us since May of last year and we will truly miss him!

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! Here are some things parents and caregivers can do when children show signs of language disorders.

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! Here are some of the early signs of language disorders in children.

Here is Alexis's song feature!
Singing to children can be incredibly beneficial for their speech development. Music helps children develop their listening and language skills and their ability to distinguish different sounds and tones. Singing also helps children learn new words and phrases in a fun and engaging way. Additionally, singing can help children develop their social and emotional skills, as they learn to express themselves through music and connect with others through singing. Overall, incorporating singing into a child's daily routine can positively impact their language and cognitive development.

Did you know A to Z Hosts We Stutter Upstate the first Thursday of every month? At each meeting, members talk about their lives and discuss issues related to living life as a person who stutters. It’s a welcoming place where conversation flows freely without fear or embarrassment, and no one feels alone. To find out more about We Stutter Upstate visit https://westutterupstate.com

Here is Claire's song feature!
Singing to children can be incredibly beneficial for their speech development. Music helps children develop their listening and language skills and their ability to distinguish different sounds and tones. Singing also helps children learn new words and phrases in a fun and engaging way. Additionally, singing can help children develop their social and emotional skills, as they learn to express themselves through music and connect with others through singing. Overall, incorporating singing into a child's daily routine can positively impact their language and cognitive development.