Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
Vulnerability & Speech Resiliency
This is a little story about teaching speech resiliency. I was working with a 3-year-old with childhood apraxia of speech. Let’s call...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Apr 12
- 6 min
Coaching for Caregivers
What is coaching and why do we do it? Coaching looks a lot different than a traditional therapy model. Sometimes parents are a little...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Jul 29, 2020
- 5 min
My First Client / Therapy Under a Table
When I was a graduate clinician at Florida State University, I saw my first client in the clinic on campus. I learned about autism in...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Jan 6, 2017
- 2 min
Rainbow Connections
On Christmas this year, I opened up my gifts from y sister and in it I found a homework assignment from my niece, Sharon! The letter...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Oct 24, 2016
- 3 min
TACA Conference 2016 Highlights
TACA is an organization that stands for “Talk About Curing Autism”. This organization is run by parents for parents. TACA provides a...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Sep 23, 2016
- 2 min
Book Review: Becoming Verbal with Childhood Apraxia
Becoming Verbal with Childhood Apraxia written by Pam Marshalla is one of my favorite books. It is an excellent read for parents and for...
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Laura Deer M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Sep 13, 2016
- 4 min
Why is "R" so h"AR"d? When do we st"AR"t to w"OR"k on it?
Why do so many children have difficulty with the “R” sound? When should my child start speech therapy for the “R” sound? This is one of...
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Henry W.
- Aug 11, 2016
- 7 min
Hickory Burger and a Water
The following is a short story written by a young man who stutters. I love how this story illustrats what it is like to live with a...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Feb 6, 2016
- 5 min
Easy Bake Speech Therapy
Cooking is my favorite therapy activity of all times! It benefits children of all ages with a variety of speech and language needs. I...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Jan 30, 2016
- 6 min
Decisions....Decisions....Which Autism Therapy to Choose? A Review of ASD Speaking Sounds
Autism is a hot topic these days with the growing prevalence of it. Because of that, so many different treatment programs have been...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Oct 14, 2015
- 3 min
Follow my lead...
You might be wondering what is the difference between child-directed therapy and clinician-directed therapy. Also…which approach is best...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Jul 23, 2015
- 5 min
BAGGLESS!
To bring toys or not to bring toys….that is the question! Speech language pathologists and other professionals who work in the natural...
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Laura Deer M.S. CCC/SLP, CAS
- Jul 3, 2015
- 1 min
Certified Autism Specialist
I always had a passion working with people with autism. In my graduate studies at Florida State University I took not one but two...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP
- May 14, 2015
- 3 min
Rs aRe gReat!
All speech language pathologists target articulation and speech development but not all speech therapists target motivation. I was...
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Laura Deer, M.S. CCC/SLP
- May 14, 2015
- 1 min
Speech Therapy Goes Home in Los Angeles
Welcome to my first blog. My name is Laura and I am the preferred home-based speech therapist in Los Angeles. I provide therapy in all...
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