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Language Play: 22 Apps that Increase Children’s Vocabulary

Apps that Increase Children’s Vocabulary I once had a teen client who had the most amazing ideas and insights. He was one of those kids who really cared about people and thought about things deeply. I always considered it a gift to work with him. So why did he need speech and language services? Unfortunately, he had a very small repertoire of vocabulary words and he couldn’t access the very reading material… Read More

Category: Contributing Writer, Kathy Puckett Tags: articiulation, Communication, Education, Language, Language Play, Language Skills, narrative skills, Recommended Apps, speech language pathologist

Language Play: What Can a Parent Do to Encourage Good Narrative Skills?

Narratives: What did you do today? Have you ever tried to find out about your children’s daily experiences? Well, of course, teenagers rarely want to share their day with an adult, but younger children do. For some kids this is one of the hardest things to do. Why is that? It seems like such a simple thing to do! Well, let’s think about it. Telling a story pulls all kinds of language… Read More

Category: Contributing Writer, Kathy Puckett, Video Tags: articiulation, Communication, Education, Language, Language Play, Language Skills, narrative skills, speech language pathologist

Language Play: Stages of Language and Resources for Practice

Grammarsizes When kids are little, we enjoy the quirky ways they express their ideas. We hear them say funny, ungrammatical things, and it delights us to hear them grapple with the English language. These errors show a developing repertoire of grammatical forms. When they say “mans” and “falled,” they show an understanding of the underlying rules of English grammar. They’ve listened to language around them enough to simplify and use morphological rules… Read More

Category: Contributing Writer, Kathy Puckett Tags: articiulation, Communication, Education, Language, Language Play, Language Skills, social skills, speech language pathologist

Language Play: Speech Articulation

Speech Articulation It’s holiday vacation time and family time! Hooray! This is a good time to check out our children’s communication skills. But how is a parent to know what is typical? Children go through steps to learn to articulate speech sounds just like the steps children take to develop motor skills for learning to walk (crawling, standing, walking while holding on to furniture, taking steps independently) or learning to write cursive… Read More