Helping you with your child’s speech, language, and feeding development

Tips from a licensed pediatric speech-language pathologist on how to support your baby’s speech & feeding development, from babbles to bites

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Speech & Language

Learn tips & tricks from a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist on how to help your baby and toddler’s speech and language development.

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Feeding

Tips to support your baby and toddler’s feeding development, from how to introduce first foods, to mealtime recommendations.

Toy Guide

Check out my toy guide for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers to find out my favorite toys for each age group, and how you can use them to support their language development.

Welcome to BabbleBites!

BabbleBites was created to help parents navigate their child’s speech, language, and feeding development with the help of a licensed speech-language pathologist. This blog is still in its “infancy,” so please check back weekly for new content!

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Introducing new foods to children, and especially picky eaters, can be a challenge for many parents, but it doesn’t have to be a battle. Use these tips to help make introducing new foods a more positive experience for you and your children. Re
Two foundational tasks that can help determine a child’s receptive and expressive vocabularies include their abilities to identify (receptive vocabulary) and label (expressive vocabulary). Work on understanding names of objects and actions wi
The Division of Responsibilities is a research-based approach by Ellyn Satter that divides the mealtime responsibilities between parents and children, to help alleviate some of the stress around mealtime and create a more positive experience for both
Pre-linguistic, or pre-language, skills are the foundation from which both learning and understanding language, as well as using words to communicate stems from. When children aren’t yet using words to communicate by the age we expect them to,
It can be our natural inclination to describe foods as “good,” “bad,” “yummy,” or “yucky.” Unfortunately when we use words like this to describe foods to our children, we’re not providing very goo
Have you ever served your toddler something you thought they might like and they just don’t even touch it? It’s possible they haven’t had a good model of someone else eating the food, they have no idea how to approach eating the foo
Thinking about how much food we serve on our picky eater’s plate for both preferred/tolerable foods and for new/non-preferred foods is an important consideration for a more successful mealtime. When children see a big portion of a food they don
Your baby is starting to say many single words independently, but how do you help them move to the next step of combining words to make phrases? Most children will start to combine words when they have about 50 words they say independently, with a va
You put in time and effort to get dinner on the table, but now your child is throwing a tantrum before the meal has even begun. When children become acutely upset, their appetite can decrease and the rest of the meal may continue to be a struggle. Ch
“What’s this called?” “What’s that called?” “What color is this?” “What does a dog say?” It can take a while to catch yourself and realize how many questions you’re asking your little