Speech and Language Kids Podcast Carrie Clark, Speech-Language Pathologist
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Carrie Clark, a speech-language pathologist from Columbia, Missouri, offers resources, information, and activities for speech therapists and parents of children with speech and language development and delays. While Carrie's materials will provide great information for speech therapists, they will also empower families to use fun and easy activities to improve their child's speech and language skills at home. Activities and information cover a range of ages, ability levels, and disabilities. Topics covered include: articulation, apraxia, phonology, language, late talkers, alternative/augmentative communication (AAC), autism, stuttering, reading, social skills, down syndrome, following directions, answering questions, grammar, etc. Educators and other professionals will also love this easy-to-follow information and the step-by-step guides.
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Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children?
Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children? AAC devices are augmentative/alternative communication systems that allow a person to communicate with those around them without speaking. There are many different types of AAC but the most common are high-tech AAC Devices that allow a person to push a button to speak a message. These
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Why Do Speech Therapists Group Children Together?
In this episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses the benefits of groups speech therapy for children and why speech therapists group children together. Carrie also discusses the types of cases that benefit from individual therapy. Click Here to Download Your Free Group Therapy Resource Pack
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The Speech Therapist’s Role in Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents
In this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses what speech therapists can do to help with literacy (reading and writing) skills in children and adolescents. What is Literacy? Pre-reading skills like phonological awareness and basic language skills Reading skills Writing skills Why do Children with
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Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Activities
Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Ideas for Hypernasal Speech Hypernasality occurs when a child speaks with too much nasal resonance. Airflow tends to be directed up into the nasal cavity during speech instead of primarily through the oral cavity. Nasal emission is when that air comes all the way out through the nose. This
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Stuttering Therapy Techniques | Exercises and Activities
Stuttering Therapy Techniques: The purpose of speech therapy for children who stutter is to help them learn how to communicate effectively and easily. Sometimes that means eliminating the stutter all together, such as with preschoolers experiencing developmental disfluencies. But often, especially for our older clients, the stuttering may never fully go away. Our
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Apraxia of Speech: Speech Therapy Activities for CAS
Childhood Apraxia of Speech: How to Do Speech Therapy for CAS Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a rare, neurologically-based speech disorder where the child knows what he wants to say but the message gets mixed up in the motor-planning and execution phase so the sounds come out all wrong. What are
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