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Encourage Language Development in 3 Steps!

When I first started working with toddlers, I set myself (and the toddlers) up for failure every session. I was asking them to do tasks beyond their developmental abilities.  I questioned my skills. It was hard not seeing the progress I expected; the toddlers weren’t paying attention to tasks… How

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Early Signs of Autism in Toddlers

This episode is Part 1 of a four-part conversation between Tara and Megan about autistic toddlers. Megan and Tara discuss typical vs. atypical toddler development, traits of Autism in 2 year olds, and other early signs of Autism. This is an important conversation for SLP Early Intervention and speech therapy

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Phonological Awareness vs Phonemic Awareness

Phonological Awareness versus Phonemic Awareness, what’s the difference? For the sake of this blog post, we are going to talk about the speech aspect of these two terms. What’s a phoneme? Before we jump into the definitions, we need to talk about the building blocks of words. A phoneme is

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