Holiday

As educators and speech-language pathologists working with preschoolers or learners in special-education settings, we’re always looking for ways to make language growth meaningful, engaging, and relevant. The Thanksgiving season offers just that: a theme children already bring into school, full of imagery, emotion, tradition ……

Repetition of songs and stories help children develop language skills.

My mother is from Kinvara, County Galway, Ireland.   As children,  we would go there for summers to live on my grandparent’s farm. They lived in a thatched cottage with chickens in the front yard and calves in the back of the house.  My mother is…