Read With Me!

The Read With Me! program is designed to facilitate oral language and preliteracy skill development in young children (18 months to 8 years, although can work for older children with delays/disabilities). These strategies help parents, caregivers, and early childhood educators learn how to make reading time interactive to get the most out of reading time.

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#BHSM: AAC (Early Intervention Counts! part 3)

For Better Hearing & Speech Month (#BHSM) this month I have been writing a blog series on what parents wished they had known sooner. The focus this week is the third theme: Augmentative-Alternative Communication (AAC)!

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#BHSM: Parent Education (Early Intervention Counts!, part 2)

Last week I started a blog series for Better Hearing & Speech Month (#BHSM) on what parents wished they had known sooner. In preparation for writing my BHSM newsletter this year, I posed the following questions to parents of children already receiving speech-language services: What do you wish you had learned sooner? What do you wish others understood? Three themes emerged in their responses. You can read about the first theme in my post #BHSM: Early Intervention Counts! Today I want to focus on the second theme: parent education.

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#BHSM: Early Intervention Counts!

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM). This year's theme is Early Intervention Counts! As I contemplated a topic for my BHSM newsletter this year, I started to wonder what parents wished they had known earlier. So I started asking.

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