WELCOME BACK!!

Speech services are well under way after all the beginning of the year assessments are just about complete.  It has been a pleasure revisiting prior students and meeting so many new Kindergarten students.  Thank you to every family that so promptly returned the consent forms for RTI Speech Services - this is the first year I received every consent form back so quickly!!  It is much appreciated and made scheduling very easy.  

As always, your child will most likely have weekly speech homework.  It is so important that you work with your child daily to reinforce the new skills he/she has learned in order to make natural changes in their speech patterns.  I'm sure you can imagine how difficult it is for young children who are not understood by their peers and teachers and to "undo" a way of producing sounds in the only way they've been able up to this point.

I'm sure your child will come home and say they played games in speech - and yes, that is much of what we do!  Drill for articulation needs to be creative to keep interest and have the students speak naturally.  If you need ideas for working with your child at home, please contact me via phone or email and I will be more than happy to send you some ideas!!  When it's fun for both of you at home, practice will not be a chore, I promise!

Continue to have a wonderful beginning to the school year and enjoy the fall season.