By Beth Waite-Lafever, MA-CCC/SLP-ATP Shared reading is a strategy used to teach emergent literacy skills. It’s an interactive reading experience that helps teach students the concept of reading. It serves to build social closeness, joint attention to an experience, models of how we treat books and other early literacy ...

By Lori Holbrook What is a CHAT Bag? The CHAT Bag was inspired by our daughter, Hannah, who has Down Syndrome, Autism, Apraxia of Speech, and Hashimoto’s. In 2010, Hannah’s school decided to try out the Apple iPad 1 with her to see how she would do using it as a communication device. Hannah quickly took off ...

By Jacob MacAnish, PRC blogger Do you like Christmas? I do because of family, gifts, TV, and snow. Family is hard to explain at Christmas. I’m going to be at Dad’s on Christmas Eve. I’m going to be at my Mom’s on Christmas Day. Last Christmas I got a Wii U. I’m going to get gifts for my family on a shoppi...

Jenna Blane, M.S., CCC-SLP There are days when I feel as though my creativity level has plummeted to rock bottom. I look at the giant bucket of blocks in the corner of the preschool classroom, and for some reason, cannot think of an exciting way to play with them. I usually revert to something like, “stack the blocks O...

_ By Connie McCafferty, M.Ed., M.A., CCC-SLP_ If you are fortunate to live in a climate with moderate temperatures and favorable weather conditions year round you may not be excited as I am to finally have spring in Ohio. However, as the weather is finally improving here in the Midwest, now is a good reminder to take ad...

By Ryan Knoblach, SLP It’s all about core vocabulary. That’s pretty much all I talk about lately. I’m selling fast. Wheelin’ and dealin’. Get on board. Time to get these kids communicating! I don’t care what app/software/device you have, I’m selling you on the idea to st...