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Best resources for speech therapy at home! We cover parenting tips & speech and language development to bring you all you need to know to keep your child thriving.

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Speech Therapy at Home: Keep Your Child Progressing!

One such scheduled kid activity could be your little one’s weekly therapy session with the speech-language pathologist (SLP). How frustrating! Just when you’re seeing real...

Robert McKenzie
Jan 18, 2022
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21 Kids Activities to Encourage Speech Development

Have you ever noticed your baby cries differently for different needs? Different cries are baby’s way of communicating with you! But how do a baby’s...

Liz Talton
Jan 15, 2022
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6 Types of Speech Impediments

A speech impediment relates to the way an individual produces or articulates specific sounds. One example of this is stuttering. Under the umbrella of a...

Stacie Bennett
Jan 28, 2022
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Potty Training for Late Talkers

Children learning to use the bathroom also learn the vocabulary associated with potty training. If your toddler has a speech delay, they may not be able...

Stacie Bennett
Jan 18, 2022
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Your Non-verbal Child: How to Set Communication Goals

Having a non-verbal child isn’t easy. Even knowing what a child’s communication development stages are is a lot of work. Not to mention learning to...

Natalie Barnes
Jan 17, 2022
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Help Your Child Combine Words to Make Sentences

In order for this communication to develop, your child needs to be able to say individual words to build up their vocabulary. It’s only once...

Natalie Barnes
Jan 15, 2022
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Why Kids Enjoy Animal Sounds so Much?

If you have ever watched a baby’s reaction to animal sounds like these, they will often react with a smile or a laugh. But, have...

Robert McKenzie
Feb 1, 2022
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Auditory Processing Disorder

According to Geffner and Kessler’s overview, Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) refers to “what the brain does with what the ears hear.” One example is, there…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 13, 2022
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Reading Motivation: A Critical Foundation in Early Reading Development

Looking more deeply into reading motivation can support your little one’s learning to navigate their journey in becoming a lifelong reader. What Exactly is Reading…

Jenna Dowd
Feb 13, 2022
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Benefits of IEP and Educational, Health and Care Plans Explained

First of all, many of you reading this might be asking, what is an EHCP? This stands for a “Educational, Health, and Care Plan.” It…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 13, 2022
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Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development

Children’s development is broken down into four types: fine motor, gross motor, perception, and health, safety, and nutrition. Speech Blubs App for Speech and Language…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 13, 2022
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B Sound Articulation Therapy: A Guide for Parents

The /b/ sound is a bilabial sound, which means the lips are pressed together while producing the sound. It is also a voiced sound, which…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 12, 2022
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Infants and Learning through Listening

Listening is an important skill that requires a child to hear a message, understand it, and then act accordingly. Young children who have listening difficulties…

Sharice Lane
Feb 12, 2022
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Child Brain Development: Early Childhood

Even though the brain develops until it’s 25-years-old, most of its development occurs before the age of six. But, what are the brain’s development stages,…

Liz Talton
Feb 12, 2022
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Top 7 Easy Writing Activities for Preschoolers

Home is where parents spend a lot of time devoted to their preschoolers doing things like writing activities for children to help them learn the…

Liz Talton
Feb 12, 2022
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My Chat w/Mitja Mavsar, Co-Founder of Speech Blubs

Speech Blubs caught my attention, and my young son’s because instead of abstract graphics or images the program featured real children modeling speech. I thought…

Amy Nielsen
Feb 12, 2022
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Finding My Brother’s Voice: Why I Became a Speech Pathologist

The reason why I became a speech-language pathologist is something that I share with anyone who asks me. Ever since I can remember, my brother and…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 12, 2022
Review

My son was diagnosed with bilateral hearing loss in both ears last year, and after his surgery, Speech Blubs is the best app to get him on track with kids his age.

- By Nola and Kory

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SLP WEBINAR: El Paso SLPs Meet Rachel Madel, M.A., CCC-SLP

With the current restrictions, how do these kids get the services they need? They can’t meet in person with their speech therapist. They can’t go…

Robert McKenzie
Feb 12, 2022
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How to Teach Children about Diversity

As the title says, this blog is about teaching children about diversity and all of the issues involved. This is good reading for parents and…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 12, 2022
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How Down Syndrome Affects Children's Speech Development?

Stacie Bennett
Feb 11, 2022
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Can Children on the Autism Spectrum have Apraxia of Speech?

So first things first, your child can be diagnosed with Autism AND have apraxia of speech at the same time. Can both disorders happen independently…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 11, 2022
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Mom Guilt: Am I to Blame for My Child's Speech Delay?

The normal questions I get after parents hear their child has a speech delay are like, “what could I have done differently,” “am I to…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 11, 2022
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Preschoolers with Older Siblings Develop Speech Slower. Why?

Studies on siblings and language development show that children from large families develop communication skills more slowly because of less attention from parents.  However, more…

Stacie Bennett
Feb 11, 2022

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