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Breaking the Habit of Asking Questions to Elicit Language

November 30, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource helps parents move away from relying on constant questions to encourage their child’s language development. It provides age-appropriate strategies to foster spontaneous speech through observations, sentence expansions, and emotional acknowledgment. Share this guide with parents to support more natural and engaging communication with their children, from infancy through the teenage years.

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Tips & Strategies for Longer Phrases

February 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource provides ideas for expanding your child’s verbalizations from single words to phrases and sentences.

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Using Automatic Speech Tasks to Support Expansion of Expressive Language

March 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource explains how to build language easily from automatic speech tasks to make quick progress on increasing mean length of utterance or increasing spontaneous language.

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Sentence Strips for Language Expansion

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Sentence strips provide a visual way to build sentences, providing a concrete learning strategy for young children working on expanding their utterance length.

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Expressive Language Development for Preschoolers

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.

Children with expressive language delays struggle with developing a wide range of grammatical structures and also exhibit limited mean length utterances (MLU) for their age. Below is a quick resource to guide SLPs in choosing developmentally age appropriate grammatical goals for preschoolers (12 months – 46 months).

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