What is Early Intervention Speech Therapy, With Grace Bernales

What does an Early Intervention Speech-Language Pathologist Do, Anyway? On this episode of the Learn With Less® podcast, Ayelet sat down with Grace Bernales, a pediatric SLP based in Los Angeles, and owner of Graceful Expression, providing in-home speech/feeding therapy. Grace works with the early intervention population (birth to three) and elementary-aged children, and provides helpful information and play ideas on social media and in her store on the site, Teachers-Pay-Teachers. We’ll discuss: * Grace’s personal and professional background, and how she came to do the work she’s doing today* What does a speech-language pathologist do with an infant or toddler during early intervention services?* What is the “parent coaching model” and why is it so effective?* Grace’s top 3 tips and resources for parents and caregivers who want to use everyday materials and routines to support their young child’s language Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Starfall and abcya.com Learn With Less® podcast episode on Parent Coaching and Routines Based Intervention, with Cari Ebert Connect With Us: Grace: Website / Instagram / Facebook / Teachers Pay Teachers Ayelet: Facebook / Instagram / Pinterest Text Transcript of This Episode: Ayelet: Okay, welcome. So today I’m speaking with Grace Bernales, a pediatric speech language pathologist based in Los Angeles and owner of Graceful Expression, providing in home speech and feeding therapy. Grace loves working with the early intervention population and elementary aged children and provides extremely helpful information and play ideas on social media. And in her store on the site, Teachers Pay Teachers. Grace’s primary passion is providing speech and language therapy for the three and under population as well as preschoolers, and she truly enjoys coaching families and believes in the importance of empowering parents to connect with their child. So Grace, I have just loved getting to know you a little bit on social media. And I want to welcome you today to Learn With Less®! Grace: Well, hi, Ayelet, thank you so much for having me. I’m so excited to be here and  talk about the early intervention population. Ayelet: That’s it. Yes, a passion for us both. So I have asked you to come onto the show, of course, today to speak to us about early intervention, and really, what a speech therapist does with infants and toddlers. But first, why don’t you tell us a little bit more about you and how you got into the work that you’re d...