Thriving on the Go: How to Make Outings with Your Autistic Child a Success
Going on outings with children is hard. Now I’m not talking about the everyday outings to the park or the store. I’m talking about big...
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- Mar 18
- 3 min
April Book Showers Bring May Word Flowers: Spring-Themed Books for Speech Therapy
Spring is finally here and what better way to celebrate the season than with some fun and engaging picture books! From colorful flowers...
- Feb 7
- 3 min
Top 10 Tips for Engaging your Toddler
Our top 10 ways you can help engage your kiddo and help increase their language!
- Jan 15
- 1 min
Welcome, Kelsey!
We are so excited to announce that we are welcoming another new clinician this week! Kelsey recently finished her clinical fellowship...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
Welcome, Megan!
We have a new clinician joining Play & Thrive Speech! Welcome Megan, we're excited to have you
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
Grand Opening!
Come join us for storytime and snacks at the GRAND OPENING, to celebrate our new office space and welcome new team members.
- Nov 26, 2022
- 2 min
Let's bake a (playdough) cake!
I've seen recipes for homemade playdough for years and always passed on them because, well, it looks messy. This week I had a free...
- Nov 23, 2022
- 2 min
Basic Concepts - holiday cooking edition!
Help your toddler or preschooler develop their language by joining you in the kitchen for some Thanksgiving food prep
- Oct 13, 2022
- 2 min
Fall Sensory Fun!
Play-based fall fun and language learning for toddlers and preschoolers. Sensory boxes encourage exploratory play
- Sep 17, 2022
- 2 min
Basic Concepts: Negation (not!)
Speech therapist shares play-based ways to help your toddler or preschooler communicate and develop basic language concepts like negation.
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
Language Play with Basic Concepts - emotions 😁
Play-based ways to develop basic language concepts, to help grow your toddler or preschooler's communication!
- Jul 5, 2022
- 2 min
Language Play with Basic Spatial Concepts - where?
Play-based ways to help your toddler or preschool child expand their language with basic spatial concepts and prepositions!
- May 28, 2022
- 2 min
Language Play with Basic Concepts!
Basic Concepts are fundamental building blocks for taking language beyond labeling. Here are my favorite play-based ways to target them!
- Apr 23, 2022
- 2 min
"Reading" Skills - Video Clip Edition!
Last time I shared my favorite ways to target higher level language skills with audio stories. Another way to up the difficulty level is...
- Apr 18, 2022
- 4 min
"Reading" Skills for Reluctant Readers
Tips for addressing reading comprehension skills with reluctant readers by using highly engaging audio stories.
- Mar 17, 2022
- 2 min
It's not easy being green!
St. Patrick's Day art and vocabulary building! So many fun ways to expand language learning, at all levels. I pulled out a art project...
- Mar 11, 2022
- 3 min
Playing with sounds!
If you have a kid who knows all of their letters and sounds but can't seem to sound out their words, there's a good chance they're...
- Feb 25, 2022
- 2 min
Dance Party with Laurie Berkner!
I've been dancing along to Laurie Berkner Band songs with toddlers for almost 15 years - when I first found a copy of this DVD in the day...
- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
Language Play - baby, it's cold outside edition
When it's cold outside, but the kids are going 🤪... Winter can be hard with younger kids. Often the freezing rain, snow or below...
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