All Entries in the "Receptive" Category
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Teaching, Not Testing - Ideas for Helping Your Child Learn Language at Home
I’m working with a great family right now. My little friend in this family is a darling boy who will be 2 in April, and he’s a total handful! He’s so unlike his older very compliant, very praise-driven sister, who I also had the privilege of working with a few years ago.
The sister was so different from [...]
Auditory Processing Games for Preschoolers
If your preschool child has difficulty following directions at home, this can be frustrating for both him and you! You think he seems to understand the individual words, but then he can’t follow through to be able to carry out your verbal instructions.
Some parents automatically assume that this is a behavior issue, but often it’s not. Auditory processing disorders make it very [...]
“Best DVD for Receptive Language Therapy at Home!”
ARE YOU FRUSTRATED TRYING TO TEACH YOUR TODDLER TO UNDERSTAND WORDS? DOES HE IGNORE YOU WHILE OTHER CHILDREN HIS AGE ARE INTERACTING WITH OTHERS AND EVEN BEGINNING TO TALK?
Maybe everyone around you, even your pediatrician, is telling you that everything’s fine. But you can’t get past that nagging feeling that something’s not quite right.
You know he should be doing more [...]
Teach Me To Listen and Obey 1 and 2 are NOW Available!
The DVDs Teach Me To Listen and Obey 1 and 2 are NOW available for a special pre-sale offer with an anticipated shipping date of on or before January 5, 2009.
I’m so excited to FINALLY get to offer this DVD series for helping young children learn to understand language. By the time we were [...]
Tips for Teaching the Pronouns “I” and “You”
A mom e-mailed me this question this weekend, and I thought I’d include it here since I haven’t written about this anywhere else on the site.
“Hi Laura! I have a question for you. Gabe has recently started saying “you want…” instead of “I want…” When we model “I” for him, he will correct himself. He [...]
Tips for Parents for Maximizing Therapy Sessions at Home
TOP 10 THINGS YOUR THERAPIST WANTS YOU TO KNOW AND MAY BE TOO NICE TO TELL YOU -
1. Minimize the distractions from other people for your child, especially during initial sessions.
This means don’t have grandparents or your best friend or the neighbor’s children over until your child has established relationships with her therapists. It’s much easier to keep a new client’s attention if [...]
Guidelines for Referral for a Speech-Language Assessment for Toddlers
I recently found a great article written by Marilyn Agin, M.D., and author of The Late Talker. It was written for a pediatrics journal, but it also has great information for parents who might be on the fence wondering if their child will catch up on his own, or if they should go ahead and be referred for a [...]
Foreign Language and Late Talkers
I just evaluated another two-year-old little girl who has language delays, both receptively (how she understands words) and expressively (how she communicates her wants and needs). Her parents are both highly educated professionals from another country. Naturally, they want to teach their daughter their native languages, as well as English. Yes, languages, since they are both from different parts of the same [...]
Ear Infections & Hearing Assessments in Toddlers
One of the standard recommendations during the diagnostic process for a late talking toddler is an audiological or hearing assessment. If a baby can’t hear, he’s not going to learn to talk. Now with universal hearing tests mandatory at birth in the United States, very few children with significant hearing losses are missed at birth.
However, your child’s ability [...]
