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#122 Moving Beyond Gestures Jul 31, 2011

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Join Laura Mize, pediatric speech-language pathologist, and Kate Hensler, developmental interventionist, as they discuss issues related to communication and developmental delays in babies, toddlers, and young preschoolers. We'll begin by discussing how important it is to be warm, affectionate, and fun when establishing an initial connection (and ongoing!) with toddlers. Today's question is from an SLP who believes that several children on her caseload can talk but revert to gestures rather than using words and needs ideas to help move a child to words. If we have time, another therapist has requested that we discuss the stages of play. I hope you'll join us!

#120 Rules for Withholding & Moving Beyond Gestures Jul 24, 2011

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Join Laura Mize, pediatric speech-language pathologist, and Kate Hensler, developmental interventionist, as they discuss issues related to communication and developmental delays in babies, toddlers, and young preschoolers. Tonight's questions are from SLPs whose client cries when she withholds and an SLP who has several children who are "stuck" pointing and grunting when she knows the child can say the word. What to do??? Tune in for our ideas!

#120 Auditory Processing in Toddlers and Preschoolers Jul 17, 2011

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#118 Toys Part 2 & Parenting Observations from Disney World Jul 10, 2011

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Join Laura Mize, pediatric speech-language pathologist, and Kate Hensler, developmental interventionist, as they discuss issues related to communication and developmental delays in babies, toddlers, and young preschoolers. Tonight's show is a continuation of last week's topic of our new favorite toys we use in therapy and several observations of the full range of parenting skills this past week at Disney World!

#118 Our New Favorite Things.... TOYS! Jul 03, 2011

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Join Laura Mize, pediatric speech-language pathologist, and Kate Hensler, developmental interventionist, as they discuss issues related to communication and developmental delays in babies, toddlers, and young preschoolers. Tonight's show topic is TOYS! Listen as we talk about our latest finds and how we're using these toys in therapy with toddlers with communication delays.

#117 Incorporating Motor Activities into Speech Therapy Jun 26, 2011

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Join Laura Mize, pediatric speech-language pathologist, and Kate Hensler, developmental interventionist, as they discuss issues related to communication and developmental delays in babies, toddlers, and young preschoolers. Tonight's questions are from a Developmental Therapist who is in a state making drastic budget cuts (Aren't they all?) and now finds herself as the often the only professional on a child's team. What's a therapist to do in these situations? Ideas for addressing fine and gross motor skills in play activities IF/WHEN this is appropriate.

#116 Strategies for Overstimulated Toddlers During Therapy Jun 19, 2011

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Join Laura Mize, pediatric speech-language pathologist, and Kate Hensler, developmental interventionist, as they discuss issues related to communication and developmental delays in babies, toddlers, and young preschoolers. In this show Laura and Kate discuss questions for an SLP with an overstimulated toddler who cries during sessions and resists her attempts to engage him socially. Ideas for therapy that incorporate calming and sensory strategies will be discussed in detail.

#115 Verbal Praise, Apraxia & Updates on Kate's Client Jun 12, 2011

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Join Laura Mize, pediatric speech-language pathologist, and Kate Hensler, developmental interventionist, as they discuss issues related to communication and developmental delays in babies, toddlers, and young preschoolers. In this episode we'll continue our discussion of using verbal praise effectively with toddlers and preschoolers. We'll also talk about an observation Kate's made with one of her clients with apraxia/motor planning difficulties and get an update about a little girl who was "stuck" at the single word level and find out how she's doing expanding her vocabulary based on ideas we discussed during a recent show (#109 I think!).

#114 Variety in Therapy & A Mom's Questions Jun 05, 2011

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Join Laura Mize, pediatric speech-language pathologist, and Kate Hensler, developmental interventionist, as they discuss issues related to communication and developmental delays in babies, toddlers, and young preschoolers. Tonight's questions are from an SLP whose clients don't like to repeat activities and from a mom with questions about her own son's speech-language development. We also began to discuss using "treats" in therapy and will continue this discussion next week in show #115 when we talk about new recommendations for how to use verbal praise with young children.

#113 May 22, 2011

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Join pediatric speech-language pathologist Laura Mize from teachmetotalk.com and developmental interventionist Kate Hensler as they answer moms' questions about their late talking toddlers.

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