As a South Bay speech therapist, I often get asked by parents in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach what they can do at home to encourage their children to become better communicators. I love this question! It shows that a parent is willing to put in the necessary effort to help their child improve their speech and language capabilities, and not just depend on their speech therapy sessions to “fix the problem.” A speech therapist might only see a child for an hour every week. … [Read more...]
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Lil’ Chit-Chat Launches Online Speech Therapy for Schools
A couple of months ago, we wrote in our blog about telepractice, or online speech therapy, and how we are using it to benefit our private speech therapy clients. Well, we have decided to expand our telepractice to include children who get their speech therapy at school, to help ensure that every child gets the speech therapy they need. Why Do Schools Need Speech Therapists? The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) require that public … [Read more...]
Manhattan Beach Speech Therapist Receives Glowing Testimonial from Parent
Working in pediatric speech therapy can be incredibly rewarding. We get to know some amazing children and families, and we are able to see incredible progress in many of our young clients’ speech and language skills during our time with them. Recently, we received a glowing testimonial from the parent of one of those clients. This client, who we’ll call “Jackson”, started speech therapy with Lil’ Chit-Chat therapist Sabrina when he was two years old. Because of his age, Sabrina provided … [Read more...]
Lil’ Chit-Chat Owner and Speech Therapist Sabrina Conway Receives Well-Deserved Recognition
As a small speech therapy clinic servicing the South Bay areas of Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach, as well as the Menifee area of the Inland Empire, we are always working hard to connect with families that could benefit from our services. We know our speech therapy clinic has something unique to offer our clients—quality, personalized, in-home speech therapy—but it can be difficult to communicate it outside of our own network. That’s why we are so grateful when outside organizations publicly … [Read more...]
Supplemental Speech Therapy for Manhattan Beach Students
It’s mid-fall. Your kids have likely been back in school for more than a month now. They are establishing routines and getting used to their new teachers, classmates, and schedules. Often times, our speech therapy clinic receives new clients shortly after the new school year begins. Frequently, a child’s new teacher will notice that a student isn’t where he or she should be with regard to speech and language development, and suggest to parents that they should consider speech therapy for … [Read more...]
Lil’ Chit-Chat Supports Charities Impacting Children with Special Needs
As a pediatric speech therapy clinic serving Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach, we see children every day with a variety of different needs. For some, their speech and language delays are just one part of a larger medical issue. Because of this, Lil’ Chit-Chat has chosen to support two charities that are making a difference in the lives of children and families locally and around the world. March of Dimes March of Dimes is an amazing organization that has been around for many years (since 1938 … [Read more...]
Continuing Your Child’s Speech and Language Development in the Summer Months
School’s out for the summer, and for many children who get their speech therapy through their school, summertime can mean a break in their regular speech therapy schedule. Even for children in private speech therapy in Manhattan Beach or Redondo Beach, their speech therapy sessions in the summer can be more irregular, due to travel or other summer activities. During this time off, you may see a loss of momentum when it comes to your child’s progress, but this doesn’t have to be the case. … [Read more...]
Lil’ Chit-Chat Founder Now a Hanen Certified Speech-Language Pathologist
At Lil’ Chit-Chat, we are always looking for ways to become better speech therapists to serve the children and families of Manhattan Beach. Continuing our education is one of the main ways we do this. Sometimes this means attending conferences to learn about the latest research in pediatric speech therapy, and other times, this includes attending workshops to receive training in new speech therapy methods. Recently, Lil’ Chit-Chat founder and licensed Speech-Language Pathologist Sabrina … [Read more...]
Manhattan Beach Speech Therapy Client Shows Great Progress in a Short Amount of Time
At Lil’ Chit-Chat we love all of our speech therapy clients and are committed to seeing them meet their speech and language development goals! We take a personalized approach to each and every client so they can get the most out of every speech therapy session. It is so fulfilling to us as speech therapists when we see progress in our clients. Take “G,” for example. His mother called Lil’ Chit-Chat when he turned two because she was concerned with his limited verbal output and his speech … [Read more...]
