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Pre-Phonemic Listening Skills

By Mickey Mellen | May 26, 2011

Before children begin to speak and develop literacy they show the ability to distinguish non-speech environmental sounds (e.g. a been bag falling on a wooden floor vs. a plastic ball falling on a wooden floor) and to identify objects by the sound they make (e.g. a horn, a bell, a helicopter).In this post you will find a…

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Photo Friday!

By Mickey Mellen | May 20, 2011
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10 Ways to Motivate Your Child to Learn

By Mickey Mellen | May 20, 2011

Fill your child’s world with reading. Encourage him to express his opinion, talking about his feelings, and make choices. Show enthusiasm for your child’s interests and encourage her to explore subjects that fascinate her. Provide him with play opportunities that support different types of learning styles – from listening and visual learning to sorting and…

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How to Detect Communication Disorders in Children

By Mickey Mellen | May 20, 2011

Click here to read the article “Parents Advised on How to Detect Communication Disorders in Their Children” by the America Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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Speech and Language of the Four-Year-Old

By Mickey Mellen | May 13, 2011

At age four, your child… points to colors red, blue, yellow, and green. identifies crosses, triangles, circles, and squares. follows commands even though objects not present. understands “early in the morning,” “next month,” “next year,” and “noontime.” can speak of imaginary conditions such as “suppose that” or “I hope.” asks many questions although more interested…

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Speech & Language of the Three-Year-Old

By Mickey Mellen | May 13, 2011

At age three, your child…. can match primary colors, and name one color. knows night and day. understands “yesterday,” “summer,” “lunchtime,” “tonight,” and “little-big.” begins to obey prepositional phrases like, “put the block under the chair.” uses words to relate observations, concepts, ideas, and relationships. frequently practices by talking to himself. knows his or her…

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Photo Friday!

By Tiffany Woodcock | May 6, 2011
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Speech and Language of the 2 1/2 Year Old

By Tiffany Woodcock | May 6, 2011

At age 2 1/2 your child… has a 250 word vocabulary gives first name uses past tense and plurals and combines nouns and verbs understands simple time concepts: “last night,” “tomorrow” refers to self as “me” rather than by name tries to get adult attention: “watch me” likes to hear same story repeated uses “no”…

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Picture This: Symbols & Signs

By Mickey Mellen | May 4, 2011

The practice below will help your child recognize people, objects, and actions in pictures. Using pictures as part of everyday activities will make it easy for a child to tell you he/she notices things. This practice uses pictures of people and things a young child is familiar with to communicate recognition. Take diaper changing for example.…

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