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Jump Start
May 5, 20232 min read
Let's Talk About Neurodiversity
Written by Katelynn Covey, MS, CCC/SLP Neurodiversity means that everyone's brain works a bit differently. When you hear the term...
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Jump Start
Sep 23, 20211 min read
Beep Beep! It's Child Passenger Safety Week
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP At Jump Start, we value your child’s safety and are celebrating Child Passenger Safety Week by...
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Jump Start
Sep 16, 20211 min read
Learning Verbs with Play-Doh!
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP Play-Doh is the way to go! At Jump Start Pediatric Therapy Center, there is a 99.9% chance that...
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Jump Start
Sep 9, 20212 min read
Does your child show signs of FCD?
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP Do you hear your child leaving off the final sounds of words? Is your child saying “do” for...
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Jump Start
Sep 2, 20212 min read
Play is Powerful!
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S. CCC-SLP Play skills are crucial in social and language development! Play provides opportunities to build...
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Jump Start
Aug 26, 20212 min read
Say What?
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S. CCC-SLP Let’s pretend you just had your first speech and language evaluation and you heard words being...
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Jump Start
Aug 19, 20211 min read
Lift-the-Flap Books
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP Does your child have a difficult time sitting while reading books? If your answer was “yes”,...
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Jump Start
Jul 23, 20212 min read
Making Waves in Speech Therapy!
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP Does your child love playing with water beads? Water beads are perfect for creating an “ocean”...
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Jump Start
Jul 16, 20212 min read
Let’s Stick Together!
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP Does your child enjoy playing with Legos or magnetic tiles at home? We love using these in...
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Jump Start
Jul 9, 20211 min read
First Sounds
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP As children get older, they will start learning and producing new sounds! Did you know that...
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Jump Start
Jul 2, 20211 min read
Activities That Will Blow You Away!
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP Are you ready for your child’s language to go up, up, and away? Balloons are a fun and...
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Jump Start
Jun 25, 20212 min read
What Do You See?
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S. CCC-SLP I see a great book looking at me! The book “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” by Bill...
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Jump Start
Jun 18, 20212 min read
Steering Speech and Language in the Right Direction
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP On your mark, get set, GO! Using cars in speech therapy/at home are a “wheely” great way to...
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Jump Start
Jun 4, 20211 min read
Giving a "high five" to imitating gestures!
Written by: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S. CCC-SLP High-five! Fist bump! These are two examples of social gestures used between two people. A...
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Jump Start
May 28, 20212 min read
Toy Closet Spotlight: Wind-Up Toys
Today’s toy spotlight is a wind-up toy! Wind-up toys are always a hit in speech therapy sessions and can target a wide range of goals:...
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Jump Start
May 7, 20212 min read
A Classic Toy that Really "Stacks” Up
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S., CCC-SLP A wooden stacking ring, one of the most well-known toys, is a great tool to target language...
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Jump Start
Apr 23, 20212 min read
What's the Point?
Pointing is crucial for language development! Pointing and other gestures is an early sign of communication and develops around 12...
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Jump Start
Apr 16, 20213 min read
The First Speech Therapy Session
Written By: Kaitlin Bednarz M.S. CCC-SLP Is your child starting speech therapy? Are you excited? Nervous? Confused about what an...
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Jump Start
Jun 1, 20191 min read
Happy Birthday Jump Start!
Jump Start was just a dream at the beginning! We started with just one therapist and three therapy rooms on June 1, 2009. To date we...
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Jump Start
Mar 30, 20192 min read
Toy Closet Spotlight
Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles!! This toy can be used to work on: - Early emerging consonant productions (/b/ & /p/) - Turn taking -...
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