by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A., CCC-SLP | Jul 11, 2018 | Cognition, Podcast, Setting Up Environment For Learning
How does development influence sleep habits? Ask any new parent about their top struggles and most likely, sleep is in the top five! Contending with sleep regressions, sleep props, sleep crutches, sleep deprivation, sleep changes, sleep experts and philosophies in the...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A., CCC-SLP | Jul 5, 2018 | Communication, Podcast, Setting Up Environment For Learning
Growing up with multiple languages Raising bilingual children has become a hot topic over the last few decades. We are starting to understand more about the brain benefits of being bilingual or multilingual, but what does it actually look like to raise a multilingual...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A., CCC-SLP | Jun 4, 2018 | Communication, Podcast, Setting Up Environment For Learning
Open-Ended Art Activities For Infants and Toddlers Creative development ideas for families: pairing child-directed art activities with book appreciation never felt so easy. On this episode of the Learn With Less podcast, Ayelet sits down with Julia Linsteadt, one half...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A., CCC-SLP | Jan 25, 2018 | Blog, Communication, Music, Setting Up Environment For Learning, Videos
Around the 12-month marker, we often see first words start to emerge. Many parents believe that first words somehow “don’t count” if they’re not produced using the adult pronounciation (for instance, if a child says “baba” instead...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A., CCC-SLP | Jan 23, 2018 | Blog, Language/Literacy, Movement/Sensory, Music, Setting Up Environment For Learning, Visual Supports
Play ideas FOR a 6-9 month old My husband likes to call it “the tunnel.” When we’re in the depths of early parenthood with a young infant, the overwhelm can be all-encompassing. We don’t even know how deep in the depths of this tunnel we are...
by Ayelet Marinovich, M.A., CCC-SLP | Jan 17, 2018 | Blog, Parenting, Setting Up Environment For Learning, Understanding Development
We all have our favorite resources for expecting parents Here are my top three! Here’s the thing about the journey into parenthood: everybody has an opinion about what’s “best.” The best foods to eat, the best way to birth, best way to feed,...