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October is AAC Awareness Month! Presuming compet

October is AAC Awareness Month!

Presuming competence is a mantra in the AAC world but should be applied to all learners. It is believing that a child has potential to develop their thinking, learning, and understanding.

Presuming competence affects how we make choices around Augmentative and Alternative Communication. It changes how we provide opportunities and access to words, communication functions, and literacy learning.

Check out this first hand account (https://www.assistiveware.com/blog/communication-as-a-basic-right) from an AAC user to get a better perspective on just how important it is to presume competence.

Acknowledge what your child has said and extend it

Acknowledge what your child has said and extend it by adding 1-2 words.

In this case, we modeled “find turtle” but the word added doesn’t matter as much as practicing the habit of using the strategy (as long as the word is relevant to the context). Other phrases that would work: hi turtle, see turtle, green turtle, my turtle, your turtle, out turtle, swim turtle… etc.

This strategy can help them learn new words in context and increase the likelihood they will spontaneously try to repeat you.

Try it out and let us know what you notice!

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New activities using everyday items can be a great

New activities using everyday items can be a great way to stimulate language and introduce new vocabulary.

Let us know if you try out any of these ideas with your child and what you noticed during and after the activity💡

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When should we expect children to pronounce certai

When should we expect children to pronounce certain sounds correctly?

A research review was done by McLeod & Crowe in 2018 that looked at 15 studies of 7,365 English-speaking children in countries across the world.

They found that these were the average ages that children learned to pronounce English consonants correctly.

It’s also important to consider factors beyond these ages to get a full picture of your child’s needs. These could include: production, perception, intelligibility, stimulability, phonological awareness, spelling/reading, academic and social impact, and input from the child and important adults .

Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). Children’s English Consonant Acquisition in the United States: A Review. American Journal of Speech–Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00168 [open access]

What is Speech Therapy?

As a whole, Speech Th

What is Speech Therapy?

🔹As a whole, Speech Therapy is intervention carried out with the goal of ensuring quality of life through functional communication.

🔹Its more complete title is Speech and Language Therapy.

👤 A Speech Therapist is a Speech-Language Pathologist or a Speech-Language Pathology Assistant.

👥 Speech Therapy can benefit people across the lifespan (from premature infants to geriatric clients/patients)

👂🏼🗣🧠🍴 Speech Therapy can benefit individuals with a broad range of communication needs. Some communication needs include: cognitive communication disorders, hearing impairment, literacy, feeding disorders, swallowing disorders (dysphasia), fluency disorder, orofacial myofunctional disorders, selective mutism, speech sound disorders, motor speech disorders, voice disorders, social-pragmatic communication, expressive/receptive language disorders and delays, and those who require alternative/augmentative communication (AAC).

🔹These needs may accompany medical and developmental conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Genetic Syndromes, need for a Tracheostomy or Ventilator, Head and Neck Cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, ALS, MS, and others.

🏘 Speech Therapy can take place in a hospital, skilled nursing facilities, clinic, in the home, online, or at school. Here at DV Therapy, we offer clinic, home, and online services.

🔹Go to www.dvtherapy.com for more information about our Speech Therapy services and how to begin.

Happy Work Anniversary!! Natalie is one of our fa

Happy Work Anniversary!!
Natalie is one of our fabulous SLPA in Palmdale. Some activities she enjoys with clients:
-scavenger hunts
-I Spy
-Matching/Memory Game
-Sensory Bins

All great activities to prompt language in all ages and can be used for to target articulation goals.

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Core words are high frequency, reusable, generic w

Core words are high frequency, reusable, generic words. They give early language learners more a lot of communication power!

These are usually:

✨pronouns (examples: I, you, my, your, he, she, it)
✨verbs (examples: go, eat, look, want)
✨ adjectives (examples: pretty, small, big)

Core words are often not “picturable” words and children need to see them used in context to learn what they mean.

Stay tuned for strategies to teach core words.

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Have you heard of self-talk? Do you already use

✨Have you heard of self-talk? Do you already use it?

✨Self-talk is a great strategy to stimulate language growth.

✨It helps children learn words in meaningful contexts. It’s an indirect way of giving them an example of how they can use those words themselves.

Save this post for reference later Try self-talk during a routine activity this week and let us know what you experience!

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When you and your coworkers are a real life spider

When you and your coworkers are a real life spider man meme. #spideysenses #dvpalmdale

It’s back to school week! Here at DV Palmdale we

It’s back to school week! Here at DV Palmdale we are celebrating by wearing our alma mater school colors

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Here is #dvpalmdale August Fun Day Calendar… we

Here is #dvpalmdale August Fun Day Calendar… we are excited to start a new month.

Every fun day brings lots of activities we can do across all therapies
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DV Therapy is thrilled to announce: Our Medical bi

DV Therapy is thrilled to announce:
Our Medical billing/ administrator assistant Melissa is expecting her first child. At DV Palmdale we are excited to spoil Melissa as well as join her and her family to welcome baby late 2022. ♥️

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Our OT office hour, where all staff can join and l

Our OT office hour, where all staff can join and learn or ask OT related questions hosted by our amazing OTD Alya.
So far our topics of discussion: feeding therapy strategies, sensory regulation, referrals, under/over stimulation as well as incorporating OT strategies within other treatment services
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DV THERAPY BAKERSFIELD - ABA, SPEECH, AND OT SERVI

DV THERAPY BAKERSFIELD - ABA, SPEECH, AND OT SERVICES.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, No! It’s SUPER HE

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, No!
It’s SUPER HERO DAY at DVTherapy Palmdale!
We got all kind of comic book fan in the building from Captain America to the Dark Knight.

Speechies Assemble!! Heres another example of our amazing July 2022 Fun Day events created by our very own Lead SLP Kristina

Vocabulary: super hero, fast, strong, safe, excelsior, justice, run, fly, team, up/down, zoom, climb, costume, brave, masks, cape & so many more…

We can do many activities with this theme: matching, identifying, verbs, adjectives etc.

Ask your a clinician how to incorporate superhero in speech and OT activities!!
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Come one Come All. It’s half way to Holiday seas

Come one Come All. It’s half way to Holiday season meaning we are celebrating CHRISTMAS in July with a side of Luau!!
We got our festive holiday gear and yummy treats not to mention some luau props!!

Ask your clinician how to incorporate goals within this theme!!

Check back in to see our August Fun Day calendar, we’d love for all to join us!

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Happy Shark Week!! Scroll to see what goals and

Happy Shark Week!!

Scroll to see what goals and skills we can target with the #sharkweek theme

For games like Shark Bite:
Articulation:
minimal pairs /sh, s/, final /k/, medial /r, ar/
Language:
Adjectives: big/small, sharp, wet/dry,
Verbs: fast/slow, swim, eat, sleep,
Identifying & matching: sharks, fish or clams
Wh questions: where dose a shark live, what do sharks eat etc.

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Fine motor: fishing games like Shark bite, Tracing lines
Turn-taking with: Shark Bite, Let’s Go Fishin, Melissa & Doug Catch&Count Fishing Game etc.
Movement activities: swim fast and slow like a shark
Crafts: Do-A-Dot Shark, coloring pages, cut and paste sharks or ocean animals

When in doubt we can always turn to our favorite song: Baby Shark!! Super slow version for additional fun

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Happy 7/11 day!

Happy 7/11 day!

The difference between speech and language.
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How to be a good mother ✍🏻 .
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