by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A. CCC-SLP | Sep 16, 2016 | Blog, Cognition, Communication, Language/Literacy, Social/Emotional, Understanding Development, Visual Supports
It’s not easy to stay “in control” all the time – especially as the parent of a young child. I am so happy to have a community of parents to bounce off these notions… Because now I know that so many of us have had the unfortunate...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A. CCC-SLP | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog, Communication, Language/Literacy, Setting Up Environment For Learning, Visual Supports
“My partner and I grew up in two very different cultures and speaking two different languages. We also live in a place where the dominant language is not either of our original languages, but we both speak it fluently in our community. When our daughter was...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A. CCC-SLP | Aug 12, 2016 | Blog, Communication, Language/Literacy, Setting Up Environment For Learning
When my son was young, we were so busy attending therapy sessions, learning alternative methods to communicate and simply trying to stay afloat… it was easy to forget (and felt difficult to make the time) to provide basic activities that promoted learning...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A. CCC-SLP | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog, Communication, Language/Literacy, Setting Up Environment For Learning
“There’s something intimidating about wordless picture books at first… When my first daughter was born, some family friends gave us a beautiful wordless picture book that I put away on the shelf, thinking, ‘no, I can’t read this, I...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A. CCC-SLP | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Communication, Language/Literacy, Setting Up Environment For Learning
“My son hears three languages in the home, and I know it’s common for children growing up multilingual to start to speak later. I don’t like the idea of ‘manipulating’ a situation to get him to speak, but I recently realized that there...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A. CCC-SLP | Jul 1, 2016 | Blog, Communication, Language/Literacy, Setting Up Environment For Learning
“My son has a good life. He wants for nothing, he knows I’m here for him. Sometimes I think his late start to communication has to do with the fact that he has it TOO easy. So when his speech-therapist suggested a technique he referred to as...