Did you know that students can benefit greatly from being taught how to visualize? Visualization is key for long-term recall of phonics concepts and irregular sight words. If our students can “make a picture” of words in their heads, they are using the part of their...
With springtime upon us, now is a great time to incorporate some speech and language skills into the outdoors. Egg Hunt: Using plastic Easter eggs create an egg hunt. Talk about where you found the eggs (under the pillow, beside the chair, in the tree, etc.). This...
At Enrichment Therapy and Learning Center, we value the importance of practicing speech sound targets at home to increase children's accuracy toward meeting their articulation goals. It allows for faster acquisition of sounds at various levels of difficulty and...
Family members play such a key role in the success of speech and language intervention. Moms, dads, siblings, and caregivers are the true heroes for our students with speech and language needs! Family-centered practice is achieved when families are at the forefront of...
For school-age children and teenagers, memory strategies can be beneficial for recalling directions, lists, studying for tests and other important information. It can be frustrating when a child or teen is trying to complete an assignment and they have difficulty...
First words begin to appear in a child’s expressive communication around the age of one-year-old. Taking a closer look at those first words, we can almost always expect certain speech sounds to come out first. Bilabial Sounds These early developing speech sounds...