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Social Skills Milestones: Birth to Elementary School

January 6, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout provides basic information regarding social skills milestones that are expected from birth through 10 years of age. Provides families and caregivers with a starting point when understanding pragmatic language delays.
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What is Echolalia and Why is My Child Using It?

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout uses accessible language for parents and caregivers to understand what echolalia is and how it helps children learn and process language in a natural way.
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Imitation and Language Development

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Imitation is key to successful language development. This handout is designed to help parents and caregivers understand this important connection and also provides quick tips on how to teach imitation to children.
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Figurative Language Pack

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
The activities in this pack can be used with middle and high school aged children who need support in improving social/pragmatic language skills, and higher level language skills. Page one features some classic idioms with engaging graphics. Page 2 provides an opportunity to discuss facial expressions/vocabulary as tied to emojies, while the final 2 pages […]
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Emotional Vocabulary Expansion Activity

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Children with social pragmatic communication disorders often have a limited range of emotional vocabulary words (e.g., excited, depressed, sad, angry, happy, etc.), which affects their ability to express feelings in a healthy way. It is our job as speech-language pathologists to provide these children opportunities to learn and understand a wider variety of emotional vocabulary.
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Building Joint Attention in Toddlers

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout features a family-friendly explanation of joint attention as well as practical strategies to improve joint attention skills.
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