About Us
LANGUAGE
LMK has experience with children with ASD, ADD and CAPD. Whether consulting, or direct service, social thinking skills are as important as cognitive thinking skills. Verbal/Nonverbal language skills enhanced.
ARTICULATION
LMK uses co-articulation and oral motor activities to increase correct production of speech sounds.
READING AND SPELLING
LMK uses a sensory cognitive method to increase phonemic awareness, increase sight word skills, reading fluency, and spelling accuracy.
WE WORK WITH THE "WHOLE" CHILD
HOW IT BEGINS.........
READING does not begin with print….
It beings with the first words heard. The coos, giggles and watching how words are made. School is years away and yet non-speech sounds, awareness of voices and tones precede speech. Creating pathways in the brain for language begins at the beginning. It is a process of development that begins with awareness and attention. The auditory-oral system is the basis of the visual-graphic system.
Parents can enhance the process and encourage the development of pre-literacy skills:
- Reading to a child is the number one predictor for having a child who enjoys reading
- Make up rhyme word games
- Read Mother Goose and Poems
- Encourage attempts at writing
- Play “sound” games - “which one has a different beginning sound ball, dog, boy?”
READING/SPELLING DIFFICULTIES
Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify individual sounds and the order of those sounds within words.
For some of us, we are “wired” for this function. For some, unless phonemic awareness is stimulated and developed, and strategies taught, repeated drills of phonic activities can only end in frustration.
Things to look for in young children:
- Difficulty with rhyming
- Does not distinguish individual sounds that make up words
Things to look for in older children:
- Difficulty decoding unknown words
- Guesses at words
- Difficulty with syllables
- Falls behind peers in spite of intellectual ability
WHEN SPEECH SOUNDS ARE COMPROMISED
At three, "woodle" instead of "little" and "Willwie" instead of "really" are cute.
At seven, it's embarrassing.
At eight Grandmother asks "When will that change?"
Identifying oral motor weaknesses that may be involved and identifying sensory integration issues which may impact production are important.
LANGUAGE
Social thinking skills are as important as cognitive thinking skills.
ASD or ADD
As a child moves from one developmental stage to the next cognitively, so will language development move. Children with ASD require structure, additional process time and visual support. Students with ADD, and CAPD benefit from many of the same supports ~ all individualized to fit the student's needs.
- Use Social Stories and “power cards” to fit the situation
- Use visual guidelines to state expected behavior
- Be consistent
- Peer partner
- Verbally state the expectations
- Students with processing delays require extra process time
- Language delayed students require structure
- Do not label your student as "lazy"
Owner
LINDA M. KNAB, M.A., CCC-SLP
Graduated San Jose State University
B.A. 1999
Cum Laude
M.A. 2001
Honors
Member of American Speech-Language Hearing Association
American Speech-Language Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence
Arizona State License SLP 1652
Serving the Gilbert, Chandler, Queen Creek area.
Providing private services in Arizona since 2006
Clinical experience in Pre-school, Elementary, Middle Schools, High School, and Adult Long Term Care. Experience in all areas of Speech-Language disorders.