Toy-Cycling By Hallie Bulkin It is THAT time of year when you can REALLY break the bank on buying new toys, even with all of the black Friday deals and holiday sales on the horizon. So how do you save $ money $ during the holiday season? Here’s a simple answer: Learn to TOY-CYCLE and Continue reading
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Book Club Week 11: Goodnight Moon
Book Club Week 11: Goodnight Moon By Hallie Bulkin Theme of the Month Thanksgiving Book of the Week Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Color of the Week White Label 5 new white things a day! Don’t forget about the White Moon (and clouds…and snow in some parts of the country right now!) Song/Nursery Rhyme of Continue reading
Teaching Early Words To A Language-Delayed Toddler
Teaching Early Words To A Language-Delayed Toddler By Hallie Bulkin I was chatting with our intern yesterday and she asked a great question! She asked, “What are the first words you teach a young child?” [Note: In this scenario a young client generally refers to a child 18 months to 3 years who is not Continue reading
Book Club Week 10: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
Book Club Week 10: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie By Hallie Bulkin So I have pie on the mind. I was ready to make pumpkin pies yesterday but my family talked me out of it. I have the organic ingredients so it’s going to happen at some point in the next several days! Continue reading
Book Club Week 9: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Book Club Week 9: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything By Hallie Bulkin Again this week I come to you with one of my FAVORITE books for the Fall season. With this book you can read, re-read, have your child retell the story by just looking at the pictures, practice sounds that each Continue reading
Book Club Week 8: Leaf Man
Book Club Week 8: Leaf Man By Hallie Bulkin Welcome to our 8th week of Book Club! Here we are with another “classic” preschool book that I could not imagine skipping this year, Leaf Man. There are so many leaves and so many colors falling from the trees right now so let’s take advantage of that! Enjoy! Continue reading
Book Club Week 7: Click, Clack, BOO!
Book Club Week 7: Click, Clack, BOO! By Hallie Bulkin Welcome to our 7th week of Book Club! This week we bring you a fun book with lots of fun activities surrounding it! Here are some suggestions for this weeks title, Click Clack Boo!! Enjoy! Theme of the Month Halloween Book of the Week Click, Clack, Boo! by Continue reading
5 Ways a Speech Language Pathologist Can Make Your Preschoolers Life Better!
5 Ways a Speech Language Pathologist Can Make Your Preschoolers Life Better! By Hallie Bulkin Many parents and even professionals assume that speech language pathologists (SLPs) just work on correcting a child’s speech. This is such a small piece of the puzzle. We treat articulation, speech intelligibility, receptive and expressive language, social communication/pragmatics, use of Continue reading
Mooo, Baaaa, LaLaLa…Said the Speech Therapist
Mooo, Baaaa, LaLaLa…Said the Speech Therapist By Hallie Bulkin I was just having a conversation with our fabulous intern, Lauren, this morning about animals and animal sounds being such a basis of early language intervention. Yes, young children love animals and their accompanying sounds but there are reasons as to why I can be heard Continue reading
FREE Little Sprout Book Club
Welcome to our FREE Little Sprout Book Club! With the school year starting, I went back through my books (which are all organized by preschool-based themes) and I felt myself missing the days that I organized my therapy sessions by “themed units” inline with the public school preschool education program (“PEP”). I decided to reinstate this Continue reading