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    How to Develop Your Child’s Language

    Improving Your Child’s Social Skills: Part 5–Learning to Speak in Public

    Improving Your Child’s Social Skills: Part 5–Learning to Speak in Public

    Learning to Speak in Public A great enhancement to any child’s social skills is the confidence to speak in public. Speaking successfully in public is a skill that will serve your child their whole life...
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    Posted July 23, 2023 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Public speaking skills, Social skills
    Improving Your Children’s Vocabulary Skills

    Improving Your Children’s Vocabulary Skills

    In today’s complex workforce, the worker with a powerful and rich vocabulary will have a major advantage indeed. To me as a mother and speech-language pathologist, vocabulary is one of the very most important skills for our children to develop...
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    Posted September 7, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Literacy, Vocabulary
    Your Child’s Social Skills

    Your Child’s Social Skills

    The Importance of Strong Social Skills in Our High Tech World We all know that in the 21st century, machines and technology have taken over many jobs that people used to do. The use of robots has expanded also. Given this scenario, socioemotional...
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    Posted July 30, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, People skills, Social skills
    Increasing Your Child’s Phonological Awareness Skills

    Increasing Your Child’s Phonological Awareness Skills

    Phonological Awareness Skills Phonological awareness (PA) skills involve knowledge of sounds and syllables and the sound structure of words. PA skills are essential to good reading, and are the best predictor of spelling success in elementary...
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    Posted October 21, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in How to Develop Your Child's Language, Literacy, Reading with your child
    Practical Strategies for Building Young Children’s Print Awareness Skills

    Practical Strategies for Building Young Children’s Print Awareness Skills

    As school is back in full swing, many of us are thinking about how to set up our young children for success. Even if our children are in preschool and haven’t started their elementary years yet, it’s never too soon to begin working on print...
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    Posted August 25, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Literacy, Reading with your child
    How to Build Your Child’s Literacy Skills: Practical Tips

    How to Build Your Child’s Literacy Skills: Practical Tips

    When children are just learning to read—and especially if they are struggling—a great strategy is to use a picture walk before you actually start to read the book. In the picture walk strategy (taught to me by one of my son Mark’s tutors), you...
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    Posted August 18, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Literacy, Reading with your child
    Respond Immediately When our Babies and Small Children Initiate

    Respond Immediately When our Babies and Small Children Initiate

    Through the haze of my fatigue when Mark was a baby, I learned how to watch him carefully and respond immediately when he initiated communication—verbally or nonverbally. For example, he’d wake up in his basket and start waving his arms. I’d go...
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    Posted February 10, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Speech
    Say “Up, Please!” Encouraging Babies’ First Words Through Imitation

    Say “Up, Please!” Encouraging Babies’ First Words Through Imitation

    Every parent looks forward to our babies’ first words. We can’t wait for them to talk! Mark played his cards right, and his first word was “mama” when he was 12 months old. We know that most babies say their first word around one year (12 months)...
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    Posted February 3, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language
    Kinetic Sand Rocks for Speech and Language!

    Kinetic Sand Rocks for Speech and Language!

    So when Mark was little, he loved kinetic sand–it was so good for his sensory skills! Today as a practicing speech-language pathologist, I find that kinetic sand is very highly motivating for the kids on my caseload. “Is Miss Cewest...
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    Posted January 26, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Speech
    Easy Speech and Language Stimulation Strategies for Babies and Toddlers

    Easy Speech and Language Stimulation Strategies for Babies and Toddlers

    As a first time mother, I remember being absolutely overwhelmed with how truly hard and time-consuming it was to take care of a baby! Though I have never loved anyone more than my precious son Mark, being a new mom was a major challenge for me...
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    Posted January 20, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Reading with your child

    I Love You, Stinkyface: New Year’s Tips for Making Reading Fun for Your Child!

    My 6-foot tall 21-year old Mark snuggled up next to me. He had generously allowed me to read aloud to him one of his favorite childhood books, I Love You, Stinky Face. Yesterday I took Mark to the airport to go back to Washington, D.C. for spring...
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    Posted January 10, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, Dyslexia, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Reading with your child
    Holiday Remembrances: Dyslexia and Christmas

    Holiday Remembrances: Dyslexia and Christmas

    Tears filled my eyes this morning as I watched the beautiful children of Mission Avenue Elementary sing Christmas songs with motions. I well remembered how my son Mark, now a successful 21-year old student at George Washington University in D.C....
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    Posted December 18, 2018 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, Dyslexia, How to Develop Your Child's Language
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