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Kim Rau
To New Beginnings: Welcome to Our Website

A new beginning, a new website!  We would like to wholeheartedly welcome you to our website.

At Climbing Ladders, we believe in providing parents with the tools they need to support and engage their child, teenager, or loved one who might struggle to communicate.  

We will be continuously updating this site with the latest resources to support our mission to ensure every child is able to communicate, love, laugh, and conquer their speech-language challenges.

Please visit the Contact Us section of our website to learn more about our mission, services, and how we are involved in the community.

Thank you for visiting!

Kimberly Rau

President, Climbing Ladders

To New Beginnings: Welcome to Our Website

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Social Skills

For many children social skills such as turn-taking, initiating conversations, reading body language, topic maintenance, etc. are developed easily.  However, for other children with speech-language difficulties social skills need to be taught.  Social skills interventions include teaching basic turn-taking, establishing joint attention, maintaining a conversation and role playing.    

I have had the opportunity to work with many of my clients on social skills during their therapy sessions.  See how one of my students, Gavin Sikon cleverly uses the social skills he has learned during an interview for Romonas kids.

www.19actionnews.com/story/28566976/romonas-kids-soccer-clinic-unites-children-of-all-kinds

R Made Simple

I attended the R Made Simple continuing education course on April 24, 2015 and was excited to learn a new methodology to help students become proficient with this sound.  The program works on mastery of the production of /R/ to the conversational level while strengthening language and literacy skills. I can't wait to use this technique with my students who are having challenges with the /R/ sound.  If your child is having trouble producing the /R/ sound contact Climbing Ladders Speech-Language Therapy.