Language/Literacy Archives - Page 3 of 5

DIY Sign Language Motivators

by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A. CCC-SLP | Sep 30, 2016 | Blog, Communication, Language/Literacy, Setting Up Environment For Learning

When a child’s parents or caregivers use signs when that child speaks, he or she gets the chance to experience the word in a multi-sensory way. That means that you get to hear the word as you say it, they get to see it as you sign it, they feel it as they sign...

DIY Emotional Language Book for Self-Regulation

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...

DIY Bilingual Music-Making Cards

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...

DIY Book-Reading & Prop Play Basket

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...

DIY Wordless Picture Book

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...

DIY “Lift-The-Flap For Language” Book

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...