Speech Therapy at Bathtime
Incorporating speech and language learning into your daily routines is the best way to make sure your child is getting lots of opportunities to learn! If you and your child enjoy bathtime, it can be a really great time to work on your goals. You can: practice asking for water “on” and “off” talk about …
Enhancing Language Learning with Books
I think one of the most common messages we receive as parents and that we give as educators and professionals is, “READ TO YOUR CHILD!” I find that parents LOVE books, and rightly so, but sometimes they are very frustrated with book reading. They’ll say things like, “I used to point to the pictures, and …
Speech Therapy at Home for Busy Families
I was inspired to create this video/post because of my own to-do list! Like everyone else, I’m pretty busy, but there are so many ways I can and do work in speech and language learning throughout our day. Often, when I talk to families, they have some misconceptions about speech therapy: it needs to be …
Face to Face Interactions
One of the first tools deployed in any good speech-language pathologist’s toolbox is getting face-to-face with a child. It is one of the first activities taught in many parent training programs, such as the Hanen Programme and DIR Floortime, and for good reason. Verbal communication and learning to verbally communicate start with nonverbal communication. A …
Welcome to Joy Talks Speech
Who am I and why am I doing this? Good question! My name is Joy, and I am a speech-language pathologist working in early intervention, the population from birth to 3 years old. I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Penn State received my Master’s degree from Marywood University in speech-language pathology in 2010. …