Past Events
Start Time: 5:30PM to 9:30PM


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10:00AM
Exclusive Hands-On Speech & Social Development Workshop Series!
Moms & Babies (6-14 months)
11 AM -12 PM Wednesdays Baby Babblers (6-14 months)
2/24/2016 Week 1: Functional Activities for Expressive Language. Imitation and turn-taking with sounds and motor actions (clapping, arms up), teaching gestures (waving, shaking head “no”), how to use sounds to request, how to encourage babbling/jargon/first words, going over “first sounds” (m, b, p) and tactile cues you can use on the face.
3/2 Week 2: Functional Activities for Receptive Language. How to get your baby to respond to their name, encouraging recognition of common words/people (shoe, ball, mama), following simple commands (“give me”) and basic concepts (“no”, “hot").
3/9 Week 3: Functional Activities for Social Skills/Play. How to teach functional play (banging a drum), playing social games such as “peek a boo” and “hide and seek”.
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Toddlers (15-24 months)
11 AM -12 PM Fridays Tiny Talkers (15-24 Months)
2/26/2016 Week 1: Functional Activities for Expressive Language. How to encourage sounds effects (animal sounds) and common first words ("milk", "juice", "me", "bye", "hi"," no"), promote 2-word phrases ("mama juice", "daddy up"), teach intonation for basic questions, going over normal articulation errors (final consonant deletion)
3/4 Week 2: Functional Activities for Receptive Language. How to follow 1-2 step basic and more complex commands (“Give me the ball” to “Take the book and give it to mommy”), learning body parts, identifying common objects in the environment, answering basic questions such as “What’s that?”, teaching basic quantity concepts “one” (“give me one block”)
3/11 Week 3: Functional Activities for Social Skills/Play. How to teach self-directed play (feeding mommy with a spoon), encourage relational play (puts passenger in car and pushes it, uses spoon to feed baby doll), pretend play performing action sequences (kisses the doll and then puts doll to bed), parallel play, importance of problem-solving toys (stacking blocks, shape sorter, nesting cups,), problem solving when an object is missing (let’s mix the food, but no spoon is provided), encouraging a sense of humor, favorite turn-taking activities (rolling the ball back and forth).
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Sunday March 6, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Gift of Gab with Cricket Azima, Founder of The Creative Kitchen at the Kids Food Festival.
"The Creative Kitchen presents the Kids Food Festival, a weekend full of flavorful fun at Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park NYC on March 5th and 6th, 2016. The Kids Food Festival is a celebration to educate families about making balanced food choices to help create wholesome lifelong eating habits for both kids and parents. The weekend-‐long event offers a host of family-‐friendly activities including cooking classes, food demonstrations, live entertainment, the Balanced Plate Scavenger Hunt for kids, food sampling, giveaways, and more! The event is free and open to the public for General Admission.
The Kids Food Festival collaborates with the James Beard Foundation to host hands-‐on cooking classes for kids in the Future Foodies Pavilion. Tickets for the James Beard Foundation Future Foodies Pavilion can be purchased at http://bit.ly/1bLIb0U for $25 for one child and adult companion.
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890 14th Street (on the corner of 14th and Champa across from convention center)
Denver, CO 80202
www.pizzarepublica.com
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6:00PM - 7:00PM
Join us for an inspiring discussion and demonstration with experts and parents who use Apple technology to communicate with children with autism. The panel will include The Gift of Gab clinical speech-language pathologists Alpin Rezvani and Debbie Shiwbalak; Elena Laios from SpecialNeedsWare; Kim Mack Rosenberg, president of National Autism Association NY Metro Chapter; Ken Siri, author and board member of NAA NY Metro Chapter; and parent Kathy Bell.
2:00pm - 3:00pm
"Latest Educational Apps, E-books, and Interactive Books to Add to Your Therapeutic Toolbox"
Speakers: Alpin Rezvani, M.A., CCC-SLP & Debbie Shiwbalak, M.A., CCC-SLP
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
December 11, 2014
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Thursday, April 24, 2014
11:45am - 12:45pm
"Sensory Feeding and Behavior Management: The 4T Method"
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
9:30am - 10:30am
"Normal Speech & Language Development: How to identify if your child/student has a speech delay, and where do we go from here? (Birth-5 years)"
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
6:30pm - 7:30pm
"Normal Speech & Language Development: How to identify if your child/student has a speech delay, and where do we go from here? (Birth-5 years)"
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Live Learn Play Gym
Monday, March 10, 2014
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Flyer: Fine Motor & Speech Language Development Workshop.pdf
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New York Kids Club Battery Park
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm - 7:30pm
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Klub4Kidz
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
6:30pm - 7:30pm
"Normal Speech & Language Development: How to identify if your child/student has a speech delay, and where do we go from here? (Birth-5 years)"
The Craft Studio
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
5:30pm - 6:30pm
"Normal Speech & Language Development: How to identify if your child/student has a speech delay, and where do we go from here? (Birth-5 years)"
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NY - Kids Club
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
6:30pm - 7:30pm
"Normal Speech & Language Development: How to identify if your child/student has a speech delay, and where do we go from here? (Birth-5 years)"
Preschool of America
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Speakers: Alpin Rezvani, M.A., CCC-SLP & Debbie Shiwbalak, M.A., CCC-SLP
Description: The objective of this workshop is to help parents learn the difference language development, speech delays & impairments. Parents will: decide if your child requires speech therapy; learn current speech treatment methods; understand challenges you may face by delaying treatment; learn what city funded and health insurance options are available to parents; learn about speech and lagnuage milestones and how to identify red flags; learn what you can do at home to help to promote language development using everyday activities, routines, and play; and learn to adjust the way you talk to help children children develop more advanced language skills. Parents will be given plenty of time to ask specific questions about their children and will also be given developmental checklists.
Flyer: PreschoolofAmerica.pdf
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NY Kids Club
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Description: The objective of this workshop is to help parents learn the difference language development, speech delays & impairments. Parents will: decide if your child requires speech therapy; learn current speech treatment methods; understand challenges you may face by delaying treatment; learn what city funded and health insurance options are available to parents; learn about speech and lagnuage milestones and how to identify red flags; learn what you can do at home to help to promote language development using everyday activities, routines, and play; and learn to adjust the way you talk to help children children develop more advanced language skills. Parents will be given plenty of time to ask specific questions about their children and will also be given developmental checklists.
Preparation for Early Intervention IPRO Audit
Monday, September 23, 2013 Start Time: 6:30pm
Hosted at Chelsea Auction Gallery
28 West 27th Street Suite 704 (between Broadway & 6th Avenue) New York, NY 10001
(855) Speak - Help
Speakers: Alpin Rezvani, M.A., CCC-SLP & Debbie Shiwbalak, M.A., CCC-SLP
Our objective for this workshop (Sept 23,2013) is to help therapists prepare for an Early Intervention audit through IPRO. We have personally gone through an audit and made it through, and so can you! Learning that you have been chosen for a random audit can be a scary and confusing moment, and preparing for the audit can be overwhelming. We will help you figure out where and how to get started.
FLYER: IPROAuditWorkshop.pdf
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Preparation for Early Intervention IPRO Audit
Monday, September 9, 2013 Start Time: 6:30pm
Hosted at Chelsea Auction Gallery
28 West 27th Street Suite 704 (between Broadway & 6th Avenue) New York, NY 10001
(855) Speak - Help
Speakers: Alpin Rezvani, M.A., CCC-SLP & Debbie Shiwbalak, M.A., CCC-SLP
Our objective for this workshop (Sept 23,2013) is to help therapists prepare for an Early Intervention audit through IPRO. We have personally gone through an audit and made it through, and so can you! Learning that you have been chosen for a random audit can be a scary and confusing moment, and preparing for the audit can be overwhelming. We will help you figure out where and how to get started.
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Workshop: Speech Language How to identify if your child has a speech delay and where do we go from here? (Birth - 5 years)
June 25, 2013 6:30PM - 8:00PM
Frolic! 34 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Register call 718-388-3100 or email events@frolicplayspace.com
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Normal Speech & Language Development Workshop
April 2, 2013 Start Time: 7:00 PM
2 Northside Piers, Brooklyn New York
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American Autism Association PECS
March 19, 2013 6:00PM - 8:00PM
192 Lexington Avenue, New York NY 10016 Suite 245