Our speech language pathology department is passionate about our work: We are caring, supportive, and creative; the payoff- the children and students we work with are very excited to see us and they are proud of their accomplishments! Our speech and language staff is growing and we are now offering bilingual Spanish and French speech language evaluations and we are expanding our speech and language services to your Queens home!
?Mommy, the princesses won?t let me play with them.?
I pulled over and got into the back seat of the car with my 4-year old daughter.
?What do you mean?? I desperately asked her, trying to conceal the panic in my voice . . .
My poor girl, a fan of the Star Wars films, found herself in the nether-region of such ?gender play? and was effectively banished by both Han Solo and Sleeping Beauty.
Young kids, as we all know (?.some of us by direct experience, wink wink) are prone to tantrums and/or meltdowns. One reason for this is that their young minds are not yet able to a) understand their emotions and b) express their emotions. As with developing abilities, preschoolers need help learning the skill known as emotional vocabulary.
The following six techniques will help facilitate early childhood speech, language, and communicative development; in particular, they will assist the child with a speech and language delay. About.com will feature video clips of myself explaining and demonstrating the techniques.
This entry is part of a video and blog series highlighting Jai’s progress. He has been receiving intensive individualized speech-language and literacy services 15 hours per week since 10/11/10. This blog highlights the impact a speech language pathologist can make in a child’s learning and development.
