Podcast Episodes

185 Anastasia Arauz Unraveling the Magic of Play Therapy in Child Development

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How we communicate with our kids determines how well they understand us,  Communication is key!  Developmentally, we know our kids are …

1 year, 6 months ago

184 Do Your Habits Reduce Your Child’s Need To Speak? 4 Strategies To Build Opportunities For Communication Growth

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Our parenting and communication  habits set up  our children to have habits of responding.  

In general…  

If we habitually require the…

1 year, 6 months ago

183 Jeaneen Tang: Play Dumb & Sabotage! An Effective Way To Mindfully Expand Language

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Play Dumb & Sabotage!  To the SLP, this sounds creative, loving, and  intentional for making progress.  To others, it might sound mean …

1 year, 7 months ago

182 Tell Me The Truth Whether I Like It Or Not! 6 Questions To Guide The Process.

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Have you been cultured to be quiet?  Have you grown up NOT telling what is actually true for you?  Perhaps  you know that if you tell w…

1 year, 7 months ago

181 Gwen: Want Words To Replace Screaming In Your 1 Year Old? Listen To This Success Story!

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This is a follow up to Episode 42 about teaching very young children to use the toilet.  However,  we  also learn that Gwen inadvertent…

1 year, 7 months ago

180 Child Stuck On Past Tense Mistakes? How To Help In 4 Steps!

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Is your child using past tense mistakes like “I maked it,” instead of “I made it” ?   

Do they use present tense instead of past:  “I c…

1 year, 7 months ago

179 Lois Letchford: Dyslexia? Put Away What Is Not Working And Make Learning Fun

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Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a communication disorder that interferes with learning, understanding, and using language. The…

1 year, 7 months ago

178 Time Out Not Effective? A Strategy To Make It Work

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We hear, “Give your child a time out!  

Then we hear, “No! Make it a Time-IN!”  

The Washington Post says that timeout is outdated. 

So…

1 year, 8 months ago

177 Keep Getting Stuck When You Try To Reinforce Rules? 3 Steps To Get You On Track!

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Do you find yourself having a plan… and then you run out of gas or focus to keep that plan going?  Maybe your kids are not doing what y…

1 year, 8 months ago

176 Markus Higgs: Kids Yelling At You? Here's A Better Way To Handle it

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Words have power!  

Sometimes our children say things TO US that are painful.  It is difficult to know how to handle it!  

We want to b…

1 year, 8 months ago