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Speech Tips for Summer Vacation
Here are some simple tips to help parents build speech and language practice into summer activities: Keep It Simple Simplicity is...

Steven Rea
May 17, 20192 min read


Speech Tips for Summer Vacation
Here are some simple tips to help parents build speech and language practice into summer activities: Keep It Simple Simplicity is...
Steven Rea/SLP
May 17, 20192 min read


Articulation Carryover into the Classroom
Hello teachers, here are some tips to help your students that are having trouble carrying over good articulation skills into the...

Steven Rea
Mar 21, 20192 min read


Let's Talk About Frontal Lisps
A “lisp” usually refers to a child's difficulty producing the /s/ and /z/ sounds because of incorrect tongue placement. With a frontal...
Steven J Rea/SLP-Audiologist
Dec 14, 20182 min read


Let's Talk about Preschool Language Delays
Children all learn language in the same way, but not always at the same time. Some children talk early and understand everything you say....

Steven Rea
Oct 12, 20182 min read


Tips to Increase Sentence Length
As a parent or teacher you may feel that your child or student's sentence length appears shorter that you think it should be. You may...

Steven Rea
Sep 28, 20182 min read


Speech and Language Tips and Strategies
Hi everyone, just wanted to remind you of the great website the AMA-ESD Speech/Language Team put together. It's called Speech and...
Steven Rea SLP-AMA-ESD
Sep 14, 20181 min read


Tips for Summer Speech Practice
Here are some simple tips to help parents build speech and language practice into summer activities: Keep It Simple Simplicity is...

Steven Rea
May 26, 20182 min read


Let's Talk About Ear Infections
It is not uncommon for infants and toddlers to experience fluid in the middle ear or ear infections at some point during their early...

Steven Rea
May 11, 20183 min read


Let's Talk About Tongue Tie
I recently started speech therapy with a new 4th grade student to one of my schools. She is showing a mild and inconsistent distortion...

Steven Rea
Apr 20, 20183 min read


Pointing when modeling, simple and effective!
When modeling how to make a speech sound for a student you almost always would like the student to be looking at you. I am amazed at...
Steven Rea/SLP
Apr 13, 20181 min read


Tips for helping with F and V at home or in the classroom
*Teaching F- The /f/ and /v/ sounds are fun sounds to teach because they are visually easy to see. The first thing I typically do when...

Steven Rea
Feb 15, 20181 min read


Speech Language Strategies for Classroom Teachers
This video give some great basic strategies for classroom teachers to help students whom have speech and or language difficulties.
Sheila Kropp, SLP ESU 8
Jan 12, 20181 min read


Provide a Brief Description of How to Make Speech Sounds...
When the teacher is providing instruction to the whole class on letter-sound associations also provide the students with a brief...
Steven J Rea/SLP-Audiologist
Nov 22, 20174 min read


Tips for helping with F and V at home or in the classroom
*Teaching F- The /f/ and /v/ sounds are fun sounds to teach because they are visually easy to see. The first thing I typically do when...

Steven Rea
Nov 3, 20171 min read


Tips to teach K/G production
Having the child lean his head back so the tongue slides back to the oral cavity. Sometimes having the child actually lay on his back is...
Steven J Rea/SLP-Audiologist
Oct 20, 20171 min read


Speech Sound Practice Sheets
This week I wanted to draw your attention to the speech sound practice worksheets contained on the Speech & Language Tips and Stategies...
Steven J Rea/SLP-Audiologist
Oct 6, 20171 min read


Expansion
This strategy is all about encouraging the child to say more by expanding on what they have already said. This is a great way to get the...

Steven Rea
May 12, 20171 min read


Wait and See.....
This strategy is probably the easiest to understand but the most difficult to apply day to day. The idea behind the wait and see...

Steven Rea
Apr 21, 20171 min read


Parallel Talk or Broadcast Talk
This is another strategy that will greatly help improve language skills in your children or students. It is very similar to Self Talk...
Steven Rea SLP-AMA-ESD
Apr 13, 20171 min read


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