Has Fun Friday felt like it lost the fun? Sometimes I get a little to excited with the research I'm reading... Last week, I discovered this great game called...

This week, I'll provide reasoning and examples of why using structured routines are so important for our children to learn. Enjoy!

To wrap up our journey into executive functions, I'll discuss mental flexibility and provide a few fun games. Enjoy!

And so our journey continues with a discussion on inhibitory control and some fun ways to challenge this skill in your kids. Enjoy!

This week starts our journey into understanding Executive Functioning with a crash course on working memory along with a few strategies to teach or improve t...

This week I'm defining the different types of attention and how they impact social, play, cognitive and language skills. Towards the end, I will give a few t...

This week wraps up my video discussions on play skill and logical thinking development. I'll share with you the higher levels of logical thinking and ways to...

There are a few toys that seem to be staples in our children's lives. One of these seemingly essential toys is the doctor's kit. I love these sets for a vari...

This week, I'm demonstrating one of my favorite games for structured conversational practice, giving and following directions. Enjoy!

Play is an essential activity for our children. It develops emotional and sensory regulation (after all, emotions are sensory-based experiences), motor skill...

Facial imitation games are an exciting way to boost your child's ability to focus on a face, along with joint attention and emotion comprehension. Today I'll...

This week, let's cooperate and problem solve together while we construct a fun dominoes track. I'll discuss a few important lessons dominoes teaches, then we...

Visual tracking is an important skill for both communication development and reading. Help develop your child's ability to track a moving object with these g...

As a speech-language pathologist, we love words. Long words, short words, rhyming words, minimal contrasting words, grammatically correct words... bring on a...

Have you noticed your child isn't saying things like his friends on the playground? Does your child continue to point at what she wants, while her friends ar...

This week we are making yellow ducky puppets. You can grab our template for the duck body here.

Goblins, ghosts, monsters and thieves... a child's imagination can be a scary place. I mean, who would even want to live in such a world where every closet h...

(Expressive) language development comes in stages, as many of us know. These stages build upon the skills learned during previous ones, so even for our child...

"But I don't want to clean my room!" Rules and expectations. We all had them growing up, whether we realized it or not. We still have them to this day. We kn...