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Welcome back to our last post in the series “Milestones: Navigating the Numbers”! This series was inspired by the updated American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) Developmental Milestones. Read more on the expected speech, language, social-pragmatic, and feeding milestones expected by age 1, age 2, age 3 and age 4. Now, let’s chat about the fantastic fives! […]

“Every child is a different kind of flower and all together, make this world a beautiful garden.” – Anonymous The flowers are blooming, the air is warmer and the sun is shining. Spring is here! With all the beauty around us, we’re inspired to make our own little flower gardens. And even better- you can

Welcome back to our “Milestones: Navigating the Numbers” series! In this series, we have covered the expected speech, language, social-pragmatic, and feeding milestones expected by age 1, age 2, and age 3. Today we are focusing on the fearsome fours! We created this series based on the updated American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) Developmental Milestones. Our

Welcome back to our series, “Milestones: Navigating the Numbers”! This series was inspired by the release of the updated milestone checklist from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).Today we are focusing on what to expect from your little one between ages 2 and 3. Before scrolling ahead, be sure to check out our other blogs in this

Rainbow Chain Craftivity  What will you get at the end of a rainbow? The letter “W”! While there will always be a “w” at the end of “rainbow”, legend also has it that you may find a pot of gold at the end of one, too! We’re chatting all things green, luck, leprechauns, and gold

  SLPs, we often field questions related to language development in toddlers and preschoolers. Have you ever wondered if your child has enough words? Or if they’re able to communicate their thoughts, wants, needs and/or feelings effectively? These expressive language skills are related to vocabulary, or the amount of words a child knows. See the

Welcome back to our series, “Milestones: Navigating the Numbers”! You can read about our first blog post in the series here. With the release of the updated milestone checklist from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), we were motivated to share this information with all of you in an easy-to-read and parent-friendly way! Today we are talking

Has the candy already started to overflow at your house? Let’s do something about this by creating cute, festive Love Bugs! We were inspired from this craft from the blog My Home Based Life, found here . Items Needed: Clothes Pin Mini M&M’s- Individual Bags Googly Eyes Glitter Glue Stick Pipe Cleaner A plate or

Let’s celebrate with a oh-snow-much-fun themed craft. As Ana from Frozen once sang, “Do you want to build a snowman?”. Our answer is…. yes! Keep reading for a simple snowman craft paired with 3 ways to work on Winter vocabulary, early phonemic awareness and narrative language. Cotton Ball Snowman The following includes OWLS Therapy Amazon

The national governing body of speech-language pathologists, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), recently released an updated checklist of skills for children from birth to 5 years. This checklist includes milestones on various aspects of development (language, speech production, feeding and swallowing). A milestone is defined as “an action or event marking a significant change or