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2 years ago | [YT] | 0

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Who do you think the mystery guest is for tomorrow's video?

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3 years ago | [YT] | 14

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☀️ Help Your Child Learn To Talk: 8 Free Speech Therapy Printables

Have you downloaded my Printables to help your child learn to talk?

In the free bundle you’ll receive:

✔️the top Speech Therapy strategies that the professionals use
✔️Milestones Checklists from birth to 5 years old
✔️My Blueprint for Boosting Language Skills
✔️"How Kids Learn To Talk" speech therapy icons (print and stick on your fridge for easy reference)
✔️You'll learn how to guide your toddler to say full sentences and have conversations with you.

☀️This bundle is currently free on my website this week!

Enjoy! Here it is ➡️www.learnwithadrienne.com/downloads

4 years ago | [YT] | 18

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QUESTION:
When is a good age to start reading to babies? My son is 9 months old and he is not interested in being read to yet... He just wants to grab the book and chew on it or throw it on the floor 🤷🏻‍♀️

MY ANSWER:

The best time to start is now!

Even if your toddler isn't sitting still with you, you can still read to them.

You know how you can drive your car and listen to the radio at the same time?...toddlers are the same...

even if your toddler doesn't seem to be listening, they can still hear the words and sounds you are saying.

Babies can be read to starting from birth, but now is also a great time to start with your son.

Most kids have trouble sitting still and reading.

Good news is that you can still read to them even if they are busy doing other things.

What matters is that they are hearing you say the words in the book and they are still hearing language.

Even though we all want that "picturesque" time with our child where they are snuggling with us and sitting in our laps while we read to them, the reality is, lots of kids learn better when they are moving around.

So just because they are moving around, doesn't mean he isn't listening.

What if you started reading one book every time he sits down to eat a meal?

That way, he can't grab the book and throw it.

Comment "YES!" if you are going to try reading a book to your toddler the next time they sit down to eat. Then come back later and tell me how it went!

4 years ago | [YT] | 40

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QUESTION: How many minutes should I read to my toddler?

MY ANSWER:

How old is your child?

Google "attention span for ____ month old." (type your child's age in the blank)

That will give you a realistic view of how long a book may hold your child's attention :)

The key with reading is to spread it out throughout the day.

Pleeeeease don't try to plan a whole HOUR of reading time into your schedule, thinking you'll sit down for 60 minutes for book-reading time.

It's just not realistic...yet.

RATHER...aim for several smaller chunks of time throughout the day.

Keep a stack of books at the table and read one each time your child has a meal or snack.

Spread out some baskets of books in different rooms and pick up a book and read it whenever you go into that room.

Ok, time to take action!

If you plan on Googling the attention span for your child's age...write "Googling!" in the comments and then come back and share what you found!

4 years ago | [YT] | 40

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Have you accidentally memorized any children’s books because you’ve read them so much?
I’ve unintentionally memorized Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site.
I also am proud to say that I know the difference between an excavator, front loader, bulldozer, and a skid steer. 🚜
I love the rhyming in this book.
What book do you know like the back of your hand from reading it so much?

4 years ago | [YT] | 33

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My son loves any books with vehicles in it 🚗🚙🚑🚒🚚🚜🏍🚂

We are loving the Little Blue Truck Series.

What is your toddler’s favorite book right now? Let me know!
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4 years ago | [YT] | 31

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Our lives are shaped by the conversations we have.

What I know to be true is that communication leads to connection.

I’m obsessed with helping children find their voice.

When children struggle to communicate, they can feel frustrated, powerless, and disconnected.

I help you intentionally guide your child from babbling to talking in complex conversations so that your child feels deeply understood and connected.

Drop your emoji if you want to know how to get started⬇️

4 years ago | [YT] | 34

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During my time as an early intervention Speech-Language Pathologist

I realized that so many parents of toddlers feel worried, inadequate, helpless, anxious, and frustrated because their toddler isn't talking much.

In Kentucky’s early intervention program, we used the parent coaching model, which I love because I believe in empowering parents to use strategies with their kids so they can carry over the mindset that children can learn language anywhere from their parents.

But I realized that I was sharing the same Speech Therapy strategies over and over and over in each individual early intervention home visit.

Honestly, it started to drain me because I felt like a broken record saying similar things over and over to different families:
✅Ok, let’s introduce some communication temptations in their daily routines,
✅let’s pause and give them a chance to communicate before we read their mind and anticipate their every need,
✅let’s introduce the strategy of verbal routines,
✅have you thought about putting their favorite toys out of reach so they need to communicate with you?
✅let’s consider using visual schedules for that struggle he is having.

Then I would go to the next home visit and start from square one sharing many of the same strategies again.

By the end of each day, I felt like it was so inefficient to share the strategies in a one-on-one setting.

I thought, there’s GOTTA be a way I can share these strategies with more people at one time.

I would go home after work and film a video answering a frequently asked Speech therapy question or share an activity I did with a client that day.

I started sharing these videos on Youtube to send to my clients to watch before our next session (mainly to save me from having to explain a strategy for the billionth time).

THENNNNN….Parents from all over the world started watching my videos and sharing them with their friends.

My Youtube videos now have 2.5 million views.

I don’t believe in keeping Speech Therapy strategies a secret.

YES, the strategies we use as Speech-Language Pathologists are complex, layered, intentional, and interconnected based on each child's specific needs, BUT the actual strategies themselves are NOT rocket science...parents like YOU are SO capable of learning how to do what we model for them in our sessions.

So I boiled down the most important skills I teach my clients and made it into a step-by-step online class for parents who want to enhance their knowledge and help their children TALK.

My goal is to remove the barriers to learning and I'm on a mission to make speech therapy strategies that work with real toddlers accessible to parents who never learned this stuff in school.

My goal is to strengthen parents’ knowledge & confidence.


After learning from my class, hundreds of children have started talking, hundreds of parents feel connected with their children, and everyone feels EMPOWERED.

Comment “WOW!” below and I’ll send you an invitation to preview the step-by-step class that has been a game changer for families all over the world.

4 years ago | [YT] | 30

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Want a peek into my email inbox?

This email made me tear up (happy tears, of course!) ❤️

This is why I do what I do!

"I really loved taking this Sign Language course and it has helped me keep my momentum for learning going as I went through the summer.

I just want to share a little story with you about how taking your class has already allowed God to start using sign language in my life to reach others.

Every summer my church organizes a community outreach for the kids throughout our community.

We play games, get messy, worship Jesus, learn about Him and give the kids an opportunity to know Jesus as their personal savior.

The first night of Wize N’ Up, I learned that one of the little girls in our group was deaf!

In the 6 times I have done Wize N’ Up, I have never encountered someone who was deaf or hard of hearing, so the fact that she was apart of our group was something only God could have pieced together!

This opened up opportunities for me to sign bits and pieces of sign language that I knew to her when she wasn’t wearing her cochlear implants and sometimes we would have mini conversations even though she was wearing them! She was my little buddy all week 😊

Being able to sign with her was such an incredible blessing and so much fun!

Thank you for creating this class and allowing God to use your site to expand His kingdom and bless people in so many ways!

I am super excited to enter my school year to learn more and pursue a degree in sign language interpreting!!

Have a wonderful day,

~Danielle"

Have you been thinking about learning Sign Language from me?
Comment “INTERESTED” below, and I'll send you the first lesson for free (my gift to you!) ⬇️

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