Mister Clay

Speech Pathologist, YouTuber, Writer

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Who doesn’t love to play a good board game? Games are great for building social communication skills, turn taking, and a great way to target language goals! Here are some tips for incorporating language during gameplay:

- Following Directions: Directions can be as simple as “Get the Adams apple.” or as difficult as “Before you get the wishbone, pick up the butterflies in the stomach.”

- Best games to target following directions: Operation, Candy Land, Connect 4

- Early Language Goals: There is so much to talk about during games! Narrate you and your child’s moves as you play. Being a great language model for your child is very beneficial for their language development.

- Best games to target early language goals: Don’t Break the Ice, Pop the Pig

- Question Formulation & Comprehension: Guessing games are a great way for kids to create and answer all different types of questions.

- Best games to target questions: Guess Who, Headbanz

Check out the blog for examples of how to incorporate language into play and a full list of games we love!

www.misterclayslp.com/blog/favorite-board-games-for-targeting-language-goals

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My coffee cup was empty!!!

Also, if you’re a parent reading this, and you’re concerned with ANY aspect of your child’s development, then don’t wait and see if things get better. Go get an evaluation. And if your doctor wants to wait, get a new doctor.

If you found a lump or odd mole on your kid, you’d take them to the doc to rule out something worse. Do the same with developmental issues. The longer you wait, the worse things can become. So, don’t wait.

#dontwait #disabilty #childhooddevelopment #autism #downsyndrome #cp #apraxia #languagelearning #languagedelay #speechpath #parenting #parentingdisability #themoreyouknow

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I know I’ve been talking about this a lot, but if you knew the government was using the same techniques to make our kids addicts that CoComelon and Moonbug are using, then you’d be enraged.

Check out my blog see the details, but let’s just say they don’t want your kids looking away. At all. They want CoCoMelon to be everything.

Good thing there are other amazing channels out there for your kid. They include @cosmickidsyoga @brainpop_official @sesamestreet @artforkidshub @supersimpleofficial and @mister_clay_slp .

When you know better, do better.

#speechtherapy #pediatricneurology #speechlanguagetherapy #speechdelay #cocomelon #screentime #parenting #parentingmemes #parentingtips