Growing Our Storytellers: Starting Early with Pediatric Speech Pathologist Christy Cheviron
What does early literacy actually look like before a child can read?
In this episode of the LIFTS Podcast, host Gwyneth Hyndman continues the Growing Storytellers series with pediatric speech-language pathologist Christy Cheviron, founder of Alpine Start Speech Therapy in Missoula.
Christy helps unpack what is happening in young children's brains during those incredible first years of life and explains why early literacy is about so much more than teaching a child to read. Before children can read words on a page, they are building language, vocabulary, attention, memory, narrative skills…
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