Video: A Recipe for First Words
Learning to speak is like baking a cake. It requires ingredients and a specific process. The ingredients required are called...
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Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
1 min
Video: What Counts as a Word?
What's a word? It's a unit of language that conveys meaning and intent. When children start to realize the power their words have, we...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
5 min
Playing with a Purpose: How to Create Language Opportunities During Play
When I was but a young and inexperienced speech therapist, parents sometimes gave me the side eye during our sessions. I would come into...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
4 min
5 Sneaky Ways to Encourage Your Child’s Language Development
Helping your toddler communicate is a superpower, and you’ve got it. Let me help you unleash your inner superhero. In my last post, How...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
5 min
How to Listen So That Your Toddler Can Talk
This is not the post I thought I was going to write. I set out to write about sneaky tricks to encourage talking (temptation tasks,...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
3 min
Is My Baby Trying to Talk to Me?
My husband and I had to have a serious discussion recently because he insisted that our twelve-month-old is not saying “book.” I was...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
3 min
The Great Pacifier Debate
When my father-in-law first met my daughter, he dubbed her Maggie Simpson. Although it was meant affectionately, I cringed every time I...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
3 min
Crouching Parent, Talking Child
In my last post, I briefly mentioned crouching, and as my fingers hit the keyboard I knew that my drive-by treatment would not do the...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
3 min
How to Help Your Child Speak More Clearly
It is a fact that all children mispronounce words as their speech and language develop. Sound development starts with a baby’s first...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
6 min
From Spoken Language to Literacy (Part II of II)
Hi readers. Welcome back to the wonderful world of phonological awareness. Before I pick up where I left off in my last post, I’d like...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
3 min
From Spoken Language to Literacy (Part I of II)
In my previous post on Parentese, I talked about providing an accurate model of language without the pitfalls of using telegraphic speech...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
2 min
How to Speak with Your Baby: Learning Parentese
My parents were over the other day visiting their 3-month-old granddaughter. My mother greeted Madeleine with a giant smile and a long...
Teresa Newmark, MA, CCC-SLP
4 min
Answering Questions about Bilingualism and Language Development
Many thanks to our very own bilingual speech-language pathologist, Alina Solomon, for this fantastic post on bilingualism and language...
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