{"id":130576,"date":"2019-04-25T09:06:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/?p=130576"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:06:53","slug":"april-speech-participant-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/kids-of-all-ages\/april-speech-participant-spotlight","title":{"rendered":"April Speech Participant Spotlight!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cZach\u2019s speech and communication has come so far since attending the GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Amina Grace Speech and Language Program. I really love that the therapists go above and beyond to coordinate with Zach\u2019s speech therapists at school to be able to focus on the same skills. Zach has been taught so many skills at GiGi\u2019s that he uses everyday. For example, Zach\u2019s little brother\u2019s name is Noah. Zach had always called him \u201cBoah\u201d since \u201cN\u201d was hard for him. Taylor has taught him cues to point to his nose when saying words with the letter N, which he uses, and he is now able to say his brother\u2019s name MUCH clearer. We are so grateful for this program. Thank you GiGi\u2019s Playhouse!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

–Dawn, Zach\u2019s mom<\/p>\n

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Please meet our April Participant Spotlight for the GiGi\u2019s Playhouse 1-on-1 Amina Grace Speech and Language Program… Zach! You can find Zach in the Playhouse pretty regularly between his active sports schedule. Zach is not only a SUPERSTAR athlete, but also an awesome dancer (his flossing skills are NO joke), and by far one of the sweetest, most hard working kids I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.\u00a0 Zach has been a participant in the GiGi\u2019s Playhouse 1-on-1 Amina Grace Speech and Language Program since Fall 2017. Zach always comes to the speech room ready to work\u2014he takes every challenge head on and without complaint!<\/p>\n

Therapy has been targeting Zach\u2019s following of multi-step directions including prepositions and size\/quantity\/quality concepts within, answering wh- and yes\/no questions following a short story, listing a category and attributes of an item to expand vocabulary, production of the \/f\/ and \/s\/ sounds within words, and increasing his oral motor skills\u2014specifically jaw stability. Recently, Zach is ONE block away from completing the entire jaw stability program set for him, which is HUGE! He practices daily at home and there is a noticeable difference in his jaw stability and speech clarity.<\/p>\n

Zach has been working hard towards his goals and readily generalizes the strategies taught in therapy, especially with regards to speech sounds, into his everyday environments! Zach\u2019s mom is wonderful at encouraging Zach to use his skills as well as keep up with the daily (if not more!) practice of the oral motor work. It has been paying off! Here at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse, we\u2019re focused on continuing to enhance Zach\u2019s speech and language skills so he can continue achieving his Best of All!<\/p>\n

For more information about the 1-on-1 Amina Grace Speech and Language Program, visit us at https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/amina-grace-speech-and-language-program<\/p>\n

-Taylor Kent-Kowalski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cZach\u2019s speech and communication has come so far since attending the GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Amina Grace Speech and Language Program. I really love that the therapists go above and beyond to coordinate with Zach\u2019s speech therapists at school to be able to focus on the same skills. Zach has been taught so many skills at GiGi\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-kids-of-all-ages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}