Zebra Speech

10/28/2026

Welcome to Zebra Speech: Speech Therapy just for kids!

09/03/2026

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Have you ever seen that symbol before? While it does look like an unfinished question mark, it’s actually a symbol within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) used to represent something called a glottal stop and you’ve probably used it without even realizing it! What is a glottal stop? In ...

07/30/2026

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When you see your child playing with their favorite toys on the living room floor, something beautiful is happening. Children use play to creatively explore and interact with their environment while they learn and grow. And it’s not just a sweet pastime. Play is an essential aspect of a child’s ...

05/28/2026

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05/05/2026

This question should be answered by your treating clinician since every child is different and ways to support skill development can be different at varying stages of treatment. It is always helpful to remember that your child’s communication efforts should be acknowledged, valued, and supported in whatever form they are made. Attend to and focus on the content of communication efforts over the accuracy or completeness of their understanding or use of speech or language.

04/22/2026

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Animated video clips can be a fun way to elevate a clinician’s session plan to target a variety of areas of communication. From story comprehension to speech sound production, speech therapists can use these videos to improve their client’s skills in a way that is likely to be enjoyed by clients...

04/01/2026

Talking Tips: Word Bust!

03/12/2026

March Free Screening Days

Ages birth - 6 years old

15 minute in person meeting with a pediatric speech-language pathologist (SLP)

03/10/2026

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You may have found this blog post because your child was recently diagnosed with a fluency disorder. Or maybe, you just want to learn more about fluency in our speech. Whatever the reason, fluency can be a confusing topic and this blog is here to help!

02/23/2026

For every child, the specific skills that are targeted in therapy are different. Treatment begins with a careful review of the evaluation results and establishment of baseline levels for skills your clinician identifies as the treatment priorities. Each clinician will determine the target skills and the activities that will be used to elicit skills within the session. The developed plan is in place for three months at a time. The target skill may be accurate production of a speech sound, use of a particular grammar form, generation of a sentence construction type, or simply building vocabulary, for example. Often times, target sounds or forms are embedded in play, craft activities, board games, or other imaginative adventures within the treatment room. Regardless of how the session may appear superficially, all of our treatment sessions are methodical, hierarchical and systematic in nature based on a Treatment Plan. Specific skills are targeted to meet predetermined objectives with set mastery criterion and with mastery observed for a period of time to show consistency.