My Child Is Not Talking Yet: Where Therapy Should Start
A guide for parents of a toddler with no words yet. What comes before speech, why waiting is not a plan, and what a first therapy program should actually contain.
Writing
Notes from the space between two professions
Case-driven pieces on SLP–ABA collaboration, AAC, and the arguments both fields keep having. Written for practitioners, and readable by parents.
- AAC
- Childhood apraxia of speech
- Choosing an ABA provider
- Early communication
- Early intervention
- For parents
- For parents and professionals
- Generalization
- Intervention goals
- Is ABA good or bad
- Late talker
- Motivation
- Motor speech disorders
- NDBI
- SLP–ABA collaboration
- Speech and ABA therapy
- Verbal behavior
Childhood Apraxia of Speech: When Your Child Resists Practice
DTTC and other apraxia treatments depend on a high number of accurate repetitions. When a child avoids practice, progress stalls. Here is why that happens and what changes it.
The Order of Intervention Matters: Why Some Children's Progress Stalls
When progress stalls, the technique is often fine and the order is wrong. A five-level skill hierarchy for autistic learners, and how to tell where your child is.
Is ABA Good or Bad? An SLP and BCBA Answers
Why some parents and speech therapists worry about ABA, what good and bad ABA look like, and how to find a good provider. Honest answers from an SLP and BCBA.
Verbal Behavior Therapy: A Parent's Guide
What verbal behavior therapy is, what mands, tacts and intraverbals mean, and how speech therapy builds on them. A plain-language guide for parents.
How Speech and ABA Therapy Work Together
Speech and ABA therapy work best as one plan. Here is how motivation and the principles of learning build early communication skills in autistic children.
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