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How to Use Book Reading to Expand Your Infant & Toddler’s Language

May 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Book reading can allow for numerous learning opportunities. This handout details some ways in which families and clinicians can help to build language in infants and toddlers.

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Tips for Teaching Locative Prepositions to Toddlers

June 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource is for families, clinicians, and educators who are seeking ideas to help teach their toddlers locative prepositions.

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Floor Play Activities to Promote Language During Home-Based Intervention with Infants and Toddlers

March 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource provides floor play activities and tips for caregivers to implement in the home.

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Helping Children Learn Basic Concepts

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout describes how to teach basic concepts, including general vocabulary, quantitative concepts, opposites, and spatial concepts. It offers 4 everyday strategies that can be implemented at home to improve carry-over of speech and language therapy.

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Identifying and Reducing Reflux in Infants and Toddlers

December 27, 2021 by Megan Berg.

GERD is a digestive disorder that can affect growth milestones, and adequacy of nutrition for children. This is a resource for parents, caregivers, and providers who need strategies for identifying and minimizing behaviors that may trigger GERD in infants and toddlers.

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Strategies to Encourage Speech and Language Skills in Toddlers

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout includes 4 detailed strategies with specific examples of how to use each strategy.

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Development of the Swallow & Oral Motor Skills: From Infancy to Toddlerhood

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This resource provides caregivers and clinicians information about swallow development, including anatomy and physiology development from infancy to toddlerhood. The handout also outlines specifically how the pediatric swallow anatomy is not just a smaller version of adult anatomy and how these anatomical differences can impact dysphagia for the pediatric population.

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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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Basic Concepts Board for Kids

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

Therapists working with early intervention and young school age children often work on basic concepts such as colors, numbers, shapes, and letters. Not only does this provide the child an opportunity to work on language skills, but prepares the child for working on concepts in school. This basic concepts board is a go-to for clinicians working with kids to learn colors, shapes, and first letters.

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