Speech Therapy Blog for Children & Parents | Oconomowoc, WI | 53066
Browse through the blog articles written by Jann Fujimoto in Oconomowoc, WI with tips & advice to help parents & children with language issues
Just as a garden needs regular care to produce bountiful produce, a child’s speech and language development needs constant tending to result in confident and competent communicators. Whether it is a garden bed, pots on a balcony or a paper cup in the window, gardening teaches: Vocabulary Gardening can introduce your child to new words […]
Just as a garden needs regular care to produce bountiful produce, a child’s speech and language development needs constant tending to result in confident and competent communicators. Whether it is a garden bed, pots on a balcony or a paper cup in the window, gardening teaches: Vocabulary Gardening can introduce your child to new words like trellis, compost, dahlias, magenta, kohlrabi, and … [Read more...]
Have you been to your local farmers’ market lately? The popularity of farmers’ market have increased so much in the lat few years that many communities offer both summer and winter markets. No matter the season, they provide a rich multi-sensorial experience, which can increase your child’s speech-language engagement. As you walk through the vendors’ […]
Have you been to your local farmers' market lately? The popularity of farmers’ market have increased so much in the lat few years that many communities offer both summer and winter markets. No matter the season, they provide a rich multi-sensorial experience, which can increase your child’s speech-language engagement. As you walk through the vendors' stalls, think about the farmers' … [Read more...]
Summer is often filled with fun adventures to visit amusement parks, roadside monuments (world’s largest ball of twine, anyone?), national parks, or new parts town. Help your child capture all of these new memories, experiences and places by recording them on postcards. These postcards can be mailed to yourself, family or friends during the trip […]
Summer is often filled with fun adventures to visit amusement parks, roadside monuments (world’s largest ball of twine, anyone?), national parks, or new parts town. Help your child capture all of these new memories, experiences and places by recording them on postcards. These postcards can be mailed to yourself, family or friends during the trip making for an inexpensive souvenir - the cost of the … [Read more...]
Summer is filled with long days, fireflies and lemonade stands. It’s also filled with many free summer reading programs that encourage children to explore new worlds, find new stories and think new thoughts. Children who don’t read during the summer lose an average of two months worth of reading skills. By the time these non-readers […]
Summer is filled with long days, fireflies and lemonade stands. It’s also filled with many free summer reading programs that encourage children to explore new worlds, find new stories and think new thoughts. Children who don't read during the summer lose an average of two months worth of reading skills. By the time these non-readers get to middle school, they may have lost up to two years … [Read more...]
While summer vacation often means relaxed bedtimes, swimming pools, lemonade stands, ice cream trucks, and firefly hunts, for many children it can also mean a break from reading. A 2011 study from the RAND Corporation found that a student can lose up to a month’s worth of reading progress over the summer. This effect adds […]
While summer vacation often means relaxed bedtimes, swimming pools, lemonade stands, ice cream trucks, and firefly hunts, for many children it can also mean a break from reading. A 2011 study from the RAND Corporation found that a student can lose up to a month’s worth of reading progress over the summer. This effect adds up, so a student can be an academic year behind peers by 9th … [Read more...]
