Why Yoga and Speech-Language Therapy?
Flow and Grow helps enhance social language, play skills, early literacy, vocabulary development/linguistic concepts, speech sound development, breathing, and mindfulness.
The Many Benefits of Yoga and Speech-Language Therapy
- Breathing and respiration
- Increases child’s awareness of breathing
- Strengthens muscles necessary for speech production
- Movement and Motor planning
- Repetition of sequenced yoga poses enhances fine and gross motor planning and programming
- Practice sequencing of sounds through chanting or singing patterns of sounds, syllables, or words
- Engages multiple senses to maximize learning outcomes
- Language and Vocabulary development
- Following directions and sequencing steps
- Understanding linguistic concepts (spatial, temporal, attributes, colors, shapes, numbers)
- Exposure to a variety of words (nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositions, attributes) and categories.
- Emergent literacy
- Supports literacy socialization and metalinguistic awareness
- Shared-book reading integrated with yoga can increase phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and print awareness
- Social language
- Partner poses provide opportunities for turn-taking, negotiating, problem-solving, relating to others
- Promotes symbolic play skills and use of imagination
- Builds child’s confidence and self-esteem
- Mindfulness and Self-Regulation
- Mediation and gratitude exercises promotes calmness and regulation of the mind and body
Program Details
This program is open to any and all kids ages 2 to 6 years old.
Instructor
Caroline McLaughlin MA CCC-SLP RYT 200
Certified Speech-Language Pathologist
Certified Yoga Instructor
Dates:
Thursdays and Mondays Beginning November 3 (Try for Free – November 3rd and November 7th Only)
Location:
489 Devon Park Drive, Suite 301, Wayne, Pa 19087
Classes can be done virtually via Zoom
Schedule:
Ages 1 and 4 w/ Adult Partners – Mondays and Thursdays – 9:30-10:15a
Ages 4 to 6 Children Only – Thursdays – 1:00-1:45p
Cost:
Individual Sessions – $30
Four Session Packages – $100
Classes are limited so register today!
