Birth to 5 SLP

Thanks to my grad student for making this about my summer Cultural Competence course ❤️

If you’ll be at the ASHA convention…

When the conference you’re attending is low on tables, you to and get yourself an $11 TV tray because you’re old and can’t spend another 3 hours sitting on the floor

My undergraduate clinical students and I had the pleasure and privilege of seeing Cal Walker and John Simon sing us stories and read us songs with at their pre-K placement this week!

First day of the Saffran conference at .csd on “Language and Communication in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities”

My undergraduate clinicians did a fun lesson on rhyming for their UPK students today! The kids thought of rhymes for the words on the tree trunk 🌳 🪵 and practiced their cutting ✂️ skills on the leaves before taping them to the tree! The book is super cute. Spoiler alert: the old lady 👵🏼 eats a bunch of things like leaves 🍁, a pumpkin 🎃, pants 👖, and hay 🌾 and then sneezes 🤧out a scarecrow!

It’s that time of year!

The truest truth about being both a birth to 5 SLP and a college instructor simultaneously

Was using one of my favorite apps ABC Ride with one of my preschoolers. After he melted the ice on the igloo to find the hidden letter “I” I asked…

Me: …and what are igloos made of?

4yo: …

Me: …

4yo: …

Me: We just melted it…

4yo: …pineapples?

This is one of my favorite puzzles to use for speech and language with my under—5’s. You can discuss color, numbers, different attributes on the cars, etc. But the kids’ favorite part is after completing the puzzle, they get to “tow” the cars using a magnetic tow truck string (kind of like a fishing pole). I encourage them to hold it in one hand to work on some fine motor/eye-hand coordination when they’re cleaning up. Today…

3yo: (using two hands to connect the magnets instead of trying to dangle the rope to “aim” for them)

Me: (in a silly, teasing voice) Hey cheater cheater! Try to just use one hand, ok?

3yo: Oh, no. I not a cheater, I a princess!

Great to see at the conference talking about AAC and how ASL is not AAC 🫶🏼 but that deaf children CAN be AAC candidates for other reasons!