Allegra Speech Language Therapy

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Allegra Speech Language Therapy Allegra Speech Language Therapy provides assessment and play-based speech and language therapy to children, ages birth through elementary school.

Find the joy of choice and voice.

12/26/2025

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for a year of lively joy; a year that allowed me to spend time with your family, and with mine. Allegra Speech Language Therapy January calendar coming soon…with a new service available!🤩

Flat tire sounds all. day. long. Kid put in a good shift at work.😉 Playmobil wheels pop on and off easy peasey 🍋 squeezy...
09/16/2023

Flat tire sounds all. day. long. Kid put in a good shift at work.😉 Playmobil wheels pop on and off easy peasey 🍋 squeezy and and know how to link a speech sound to something that already makes sense🎉🎉🎉 When a sound is new and it’s not yet ready to go in words, drilling over and over can be boring…unless you’re lead mechanic at a tire shop in a town experiencing a Playmobil-vandalizing crime spree.😉 Try this and join my email list for more speech hacks!

04/11/2022

Do any of these sound familiar? The error pattern of fronting (replacing a sound made at the back of the mouth with a sound made at the front of the mouth) typically disappears by age four.

Here are four times when an SLP dives in to correct fronting:

1. When a child of any age, who’s already enrolled in therapy, is stimulable (ready) to fix it. Green light - if they’re ready, we’re not waiting on a birthday!🚦🥳

2. When a child of any age, who’s already enrolled in therapy, has a name with a /k/ or a /g/. Green light - that makes this pattern VIP 🚦⭐️

3. When a child of any age, who’s already enrolled in therapy, is frustrated and having /k/ and /g/ would make the biggest impact for that child. Green light - we jump at a goal that gives kids the most bang (power) for their buck (work)🚦😖

4. When a child who’s four or older is still fronting. Green light - when /k/ and /g/ don’t emerge on their own, put me in, Coach!🚦4️⃣

Fronting in a child younger than age four doesn’t mean they need speech therapy. But if a COLLECTION of error patterns lands them a spot on a lucky SLP’s caseload, you can expect to see fronting targeted at any age!

04/08/2022

Parenting is an intense gig. It asks a lot of you, and you’re over here serving your 78 395th snack, mummifying while you wait to be “mama”fied. On the edge of your seat for an “I love you.” Here are three ways to get there:

1. Spam your kid
Kids typically say their first word by 12 months of age, meaning they’ve listened to a word for 1 whole year before using it! Knowing that kids need to hear a word many times before using it, spam them with the words that mean the most to them! Enlist your family members/babysitters in celebrating your returns by standing at the window with a chorus of “Mama!”s

2. Routines
Using words really predictably builds language understanding by pairing a word with an action, item, feeling, or activity. It also sets you up for fill-in-the-blank opportunities where you start the phrase and wait for your child to finish it. Similar to peek-a-boo, play an ‘I love you’ game on either side of a bedroom door, opening and closing it.

3. Take heart in what they ARE communicating. There are building blocks that come before talking and reaching, calling for you (“ahh”), protesting someone else, looking at the same thing you are (joint attention), looking from a thing to you to share an experience with you (joint referencing), playing together, smiling, and laughing…those are ALL “I love you” for beginners.❤️

They see you. ❤️ They love you. ❤️

And they need another snack. 😂

04/06/2022

“Well I’m over here just thinking’ like, what type o’ grande you want? ‘Cuz my kid needs a ride to speech and I’m buying coffee.”😂☕️

I’ve long said, kids need a minimum of 3 parents each, at all times. 👊🏻 My family doesn’t run without our village.

Guess who brings kids to speech language appts? Parents, step-parents, grandparents, neighbours, hockey billets, aunties, uncles, and nannies. It’s fantastic.

Keep bringing your village because not only do they keep your family running, but they can help kids carry over skills! The more places, activities, and people with whom your child can demonstrate a skill, the more easily they take that skill for a spin outside the therapy room!

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250 Nelson Street W
Virden, MB
R0M2C0

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+12048515165

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