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The Stages of Play Series

Transform the way you evaluate a toddler's play skills and connect those milestones to their language development. In this comprehensive 9-part series, offering 11.5 hours of continuing education credit, you will discover the key milestones achieved at each developmental stage from under 12 months to age 4 and how play skills align with the language milestones that occur concurrently. I will guide you in targeting specific play skills and share effective strategies to enhance each corresponding language skill. Each session will include demonstrations of recommended toys for that developmental stage, complete with Amazon links! Additionally, you will gain insights on how to address situations where a child exhibits a "mismatch" in skills.

The best part of this series is the handout PDF for each show with parent handout or CE credit purchase.

Watching the podcast is always FREE. Therapists... follow the directions below for obtaining continuing education credit.

Do you want us to file your ASHA CEU Participant Form? When you take the assessment, you will have the opportunity to request that we will file it for you.

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The Autism Workbook

The information in the Autism Podcast Series is from my therapy manual The Autism Workbook. Use this tool to design your own comprehensive treatment plan for a child with signs of autism. The content is written for both parents and professionals.

Treating autism is hard. Let me help you!

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The Stages of Play Series

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ASHA CEU COURSE #465 Introduction to Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays

In this course #465 Introduction to Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays, learn an overview for the stages of play and how play skill development relates ...
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ASHA CEU COURSE #466 Stage 1: Exploratory Play in Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays

In this course #466, learn the play and language skills a child acquires during Stage 1 Exploratory Play from the Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays, ...
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ASHA CEU COURSE #467 Stage 2: Nonfunctional Play in Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays

In this course #467, learn the play and language skills a child acquires during Stage 2: Nonfunctional Play from Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays, along ...
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ASHA CEU COURSE #468 Stage 3: Beginning Functional Play in Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays

In this course #468, learn the play and language skills a child acquires during Stage 3: Beginning Functional Play from Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays, ...
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ASHA CEU COURSE #469 Stage 4: Early Symbolic Play in Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays

In this course #469, learn the play and language skills a child acquires during Stage 4: Early Symbolic Play from Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays, ...
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ASHA CEU COURSE #470 Stage 5: Combining Play Actions in Familiar Routines in Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays

In this course #470, learn the play and language skills a child acquires during Stage 5: Combining Play Actions in Familiar Routines from Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers ...
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ASHA CEU COURSE #471 Stage 6: Expanding Play in Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays

In this course #471, learn the play and language skills a child acquires during Stage 6: Expanding Play Routines from Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays, ...
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ASHA CEU COURSE #472 Stage 7: New Jobs and New Events in Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays

In this course #472, learn the play and language skills a child acquires during Stage 7: New Jobs and New Events from Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with ...
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ASHA CEU COURSE #473 Stage 8: Early Role Play and Pretending with Peers in Stages of Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers with Language Delays

In this course #473, learn the play and language skills a child acquires during Stage 8: Early Role Play and Pretending with Peers from Stages of Play for Toddlers and ...
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Teach Me To Talk Testimonials

Happy Therapists, Teachers, Parents & Children

"I just want to thank you for the invaluable information you’ve given me in helping my grandson to talk (which I have passed on to his parents). We’ve ve learned patience, appropriate expectations, and fun and effective strategies that we had found no where else. He is exploding with conversation! Sometimes I struggle to interpret his articulation, but all I have to do is say, “Show me”, and he’s excited to do so. He and I both want so badly to communicate with each other, and your strategies have made it so much easier and non-threatening. Once again, I thank you from the bottom of my heart."

Stacey

"My little guy is taking off like a rocket!! We’ve been working through your Autism Workbook for a few months and he has had an explosion of skills develop. YOU are AMAZING! THANK YOU!" Laura Q, Mom

"Dear Laura Mize and Team,

Thank you so much for all your hard work and publishing books! Our 17-month-old toddler suddenly exploded into speaking and imitating everybody's gestures and sounds, just a week or two after we 'completed' all activities that are listed under 11 pre-linguistic skills! Your method really works!"

Grateful customer.

"Hi Laura!

I absolutely LOVE all of your workbooks, especially your Autism Workbook. Starting with Social Games has been a game changer for many of my littles with ASD and their families. It's been the best way for them to finally connect and sustain shared attention and engagement, leading to longer social interactions, through play!"

Jodie, Dev, Therapist

"Hi Ms. Laura,

Thank you so much for the videos you have posted on your youtube channel. They are so direct, informative, and helpful. Thank you for being a resource for me to become a better therapist."

Dianne

"Gosh, I love all of your emails/podcast/website, just everything!! I work in early intervention as a behavior analyst and am learning so much from you!"

Thank you!

Hailey

 

"Laura,

I love your work! I am a professor of early childhood special education and a speech language pathologist! I have worked to help children learn to communicate and I know how valuable the information you share is for both early interventionists and pediatric speech language pathologists!

Thank you for systematically organizing and explaining essential steps for young children to learn and develop. You are having a great impact on our profession, the ECE profession and families!"

Sincerely,

David

"Thank you.

If this is Laura herself reading this email let me take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you have put forth for us professionals. I own every manual (except the autism manual) and have watched every course on DVD. I have listened to countless podcasts. All of what I’ve come to be as an Early Intervention speech therapist was absolutely to your credit. With your resources at my side I have never needed to scramble for answers and strategies and above all the clear language I use when communicating with parents. My fun, animated affect and key phrases I use have been learned through watching your example. So….thank you! May you be blessed."

Chaya

"I just wanted to thank you so much for your incredible help! You are so kind and lovely and every time I implement something you've taught in your manuals or videos it is always a success, I cannot thank you enough. I really appreciate how specific you are in giving us examples of wording to use and how to use a toy in therapy with your videos, it is exactly what I need to properly help my little students. I also really appreciate your list of books of list of toys. I have seen my little students make significant progress thanks to you. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos, taking more of your CEU's, and reading more of your materials. From the bottom of my heart: thank you so much again!!"

Lauren

Laura thank you so much. Btw, you have transformed my therapy- I have become such a competent and strong therapist after watching probably like 350 of your videos and podcasts over the past few years. And I am a seasoned therapist with almost 25 years experience. (Yes prob 350 episodes ha!) But there was still a lot I learned from you. I have such a thorough understanding of birth to 3 development and how to properly incorporate appropriate therapeutic goals, techniques and strategies now, thanks to you. Kelly

 
But I just keep watching and learning because we can always learn something new! 
Thanks for all you do!