Top Tips for Teaching Concepts:  The Park Words are more exhilarating when you animate them! ~ Marnee Hi Everyone, Do you want to know a secret for helping your child excel when participating in the classroom?  One trick is to ensure your child understands “concepts”. Concepts are words that provide key information that assist your [...]

Schools Choose TinyEYE  “TinyEYE makes a difference to children.  Regardless of where they live…we will be there for them.” ~ Marnee Hello Everyone, TinyEYE’s team loves partnering with our schools to serve students.  We also value the feedback that our schools provide to us about their experience with TinyEYE.  I would like to share highlights ...

SPEEDING UP SUCCESS IN SPEECH THERAPY PROGRAMS “We created this because we knew your child would know how to grow with it.” ~Marnee speaking with a parent Hundreds of students in speech therapy programs are using TinyEYE’s Online Backpack to accelerate their success during the summer break.  I am about to pass on the keys [...]

March 14th is International Ask a Question Day.  The goal of this day is to help people understand the benefits of asking more questions and how to ask better questions. There are 12 main reasons to ask questions, they include: 1) to gather information 2) to maintain relationships 3) to learn and to teach 4) to build awareness 5) to think [...]

March 4th is national grammar day.  It is sponsored by The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar.  You may be wondering why is good grammar so important that it needs its own day?  Well, grammar is the rules of our language.  It tells us how to form words such as past tense and how [...]

February 26th kicks off American Crossword Puzzle Week.  This is a week designed to celebrate crossword puzzles.  Crossword puzzles are a fantastic way to build language skills.  When completing a crossword puzzle you are working on vocabulary skills, word play skills, language memory skills, drawing on past experiences, simple reading ...

An article written by Perri Klass, M.D.  recently published in the NY Times discussed the ways parents and pediatricians consider speech delays. If you have a young child no doubt you have had the basic discussion with your pediatrician about your child’s speech development.  The pediatrician asks simple questions like; how many words can they ...

February is National Hobby Month, though some sites say it is in January, either way this is a great opportunity to begin a new hobby or spend some time working on an old one. With our busy lives, hobbies often take a back seat to other daily tasks.  We should set aside some time to [...]

A recent article found in Yahoo! News helps explain why some children get bullied or picked on more than others. This article titled “Studies Reveal Why Kids get Bullied and Rejected” was written by Robin Nixon a LiveScience Contributor.  Approximately 10-13% of children go through rejections by their peers during their school years. This article ...

January is Bake for Family Fun Month.  While this is a fun way to spend some quality time with your child, it is also a great way to work on speech-language skills.  This post will show you how to incorporate speech-language skills into a baking activity. First, choose a recipe that is easy to make.  It [...]