Creating Voices Therapy

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We’re so excited to continue working with you this year at Creating Voices! We look forward to supporting your child’s speech, language, and feeding journey in 2026 🤍🗣️

We want our little ones to work to gain our attention and engage with us. Children are developmentally ready to initiate with us from a very early age. While initiation is listed as the last prelinguistic skill, this skill must emerge alongside using gestures to communicate and vocalizing purposefully.
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"A child’s ability to initiate is a major diagnostic factor in determining whether he or she is a late talker or if there’s a larger developmental problem."-Laura Mize. Initiation is often what helps us differentiate between individuals with learning differences or late talkers, as late talkers often intimate interaction with others, just non-verbally. We want to assist all children in taking the lead to get their wants and needs met.
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In the slides above we discuss strategies to help your child initiate and truly learn how powerful they are!
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Based on Laura Mize- "Teach Me to Talk"
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We have been guilty, even as a SLPs, to get overly eager and start working on imitation of words right from the beginning. We really need to work on imitation of play and gross body movement FIRST! Did you know that we actually need a child to be imitating our movements before we target word use? Until we have imitation of body movement, WE ARE NOT READY FOR WORDS!
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Here we define imitation and go through the different levels of learning imitation. As with all our tasks, we need to find the level where the child is, and come up with our realistic expectation of where to start to work towards. For instance, if a child is not imitating clapping or social games, then we should not expect them to start to imitate words or even sounds!
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We hope this is informative and gives you the information needed to help support your child! We know this is a lot to learn, but are so proud of all your efforts to better understand language development for your child!
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🗣We want eto teach our little ones how to be NOISY so that they learn that by using their voice they can gain and direct our attention.
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🗣This skill does not mean TALK more, but rather MAKE MORE SOUNDS. Sounds and noises come far before words. The very same vowels and consonants we are modeling in sounds are what words are made up of!
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🗣In the slides above we discuss 5 strategies to help you assist your little one in learning to make sounds more purposefully.
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🗣Like with all prelinguistic skills, addressing them in REPETITION is crucial! Repeat the same sounds each time you are playing or performing a daily task!
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🗣Don't be afraid to get silly and have some FUN! That will captivate your child's attention and create an exciting learning opportunity!
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Based on Laura Mize- "Teach Me to Talk"
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Children have to understand words BEFORE they can use words to communicate. This understanding of language is known as receptive language. We MUST prioritize a child's ability to understand language in order to assist them in becoming verbal communicators.
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In the slides above we talk about skills we are expecting by the time a child is 18 months of age, strategies to address receptive language, and ways to begin building a strong core vocabulary (understanding this vocabulary first, then working on saying the words).
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There are so many pieces to receptive language and these skills take time. We want to help you understand the importance of receptive language and assist you in implementing strategies into your daily life!
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Based on Laura Mize- "Teach Me to Talk"
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