If you are like most parents, the thought of trying to figure out how to keep your children entertained during the holiday break can give you a massive amount of stress and anxiety. To help cure the holiday break blues, we complied a list of holiday activities your kids are sure to enjoy. Christmas Color By Number-This is such a great activity for visual scanning and fine motor skills. Paper Ball Reindeer Craft-An adorable and easy craft that promotes cutting skills. Love it!

Long gone are the days when speech therapy meant tedious exercises in pronunciation. Instead, an onslaught of apps makes language development genuine fun for children. Whether you have a laptop or an iPad, these programs are easily accessible and often free. ABC Alphabet Phonics Comprehensive and colorful, ABC Alphabet Phonics helps children who struggle with letter name identification. Toca Kitchen Monsters Children practice labeling, following directions, and vocabulary by

Social skills are the skills individuals use in every day life in order to communicate and interact with other people within their environment. Such skills include both verbal and non-verbal forms of communication including speech, facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, and body language. When kids have difficulties with social skills, they may struggle with making friends, maintaining relationships with peers, communicating appropriately with adults or unfamiliar people,

Occasionally I am asked for suggestions from parents on how to play at home with their preschooler who is receiving speech therapy in order to encourage using appropriate dialogue. Here are a few suggestions that I find are beneficial: 1). My child repeats “swinging” or “running” while swinging or running. When your child says an action, while doing the action, model appropriate responses during the activity such as "this is fun, go higher", “I like swinging”. This models app