by Sharon VanDyke | Jul 24, 2020 | Speech Therapy
Let’s talk about ears! First, of all, and I’m just getting this out of the way, but aren’t ears weird? I mean honestly. Take a look at them. They are just…well…funky. If you landed here another planet, one where people didn’t look like us, and you saw, say, a nose,...
by Sharon VanDyke | Jun 18, 2020 | Speech Therapy
It may look like play to you, but it’s serious work to them. When your child puts a block on a tower, and it falls down. When your child drops a pebble in a puddle and watches the ripples flow from the object they threw in. When your child throws a ball up in the air...
by Sharon VanDyke | May 10, 2020 | Speech Therapy
I spend a lot of time with what I call the “littles.” These are my youngest clients, birth to 3. When they need help with communication there are a few things I say all the time when parents ask me what they should do. “Watch his eyes! Talk about what he’s looking...
by Sharon VanDyke | May 3, 2020 | Speech Therapy
I remember the exact moment I decided it was time to temporarily halt face-to-face visits when the COVID-19 crisis became a reality. I was sitting in my kitchen, looking at my decimated schedule on my computer, as understandably, client after client cancelled. I...
by Sharon VanDyke | Apr 26, 2020 | Speech Therapy
I’ve said it probably a hundred times. Maybe more. “I get it. My kid’s on the spectrum too.” In the beginning, when I first started working with kids, I wasn’t sure about disclosing that my son was on the Autism Spectrum. It was 2009, I just started my first job...
