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Before we encourage language development and speech therapy for toddlers, we need to shift our mindset. It’s important to remember that toddlers are not preschoolers, school-age children, or infants. So we can treat them as though they are. When I first started working with toddlers, I set myself (and the
What to do When You Don’t Know What to do I spent several years as a school-based Speech Language Pathologist before working in home health. If you’ve worked in schools, then you know there’s not a lot of interaction with parents. So, when I started in the home health world,
In 2023, the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) released updated communication milestones for the first 5 years of life. Communication milestones are goals or markers a child is expected to achieve at a certain time or age. These milestones were created so that parents (and clinicians) could have guidelines