The Language of Play - Kids that Listen, Speech Therapy, Language Development, Early Intervention
*** A Top 1.5% Podcast! *** Getting Kids to Listen, Speech Therapy, IEP, Communication with Kids, Parent Mentor
Are you tired of repeating yourself and wondering why your child still doesn’t listen?
Are you worried you might be missing something important when it comes to your child’s speech, language, or behavior?
Do arguments, whining, or meltdowns leave you feeling exhausted and unsure what to do next?
Hey parents—you don’t have to stay overwhelmed, worn down, or triggered by the daily fuss.
I’m Dinalynn Rosenbush, a mom, grandma, and Speech-Language Pathologist for over 30 years. I’ve worked with hundreds of children with speech and language challenges and navigated parenting struggles of my own. Through both training and lived experience, I learned how using specific language in intentional ways builds safety, trust, and growth. Communication isn’t just about words, it’s about how children feel when we speak to them.
I’m here to help you understand what your child is really communicating and respond in ways that build listening, speech, and connection. You’ll learn how to support communication—even with speech or language delays—set boundaries that truly help kids, and strengthen your relationship at the same time. My mission is to help busy, worried parents learn to read behavior as communication. When we understand what children are telling us, we begin to communicate differently.
These ideas work for typically developing children, kids in dual-language homes, and children with delays. When your language invites discovery, curiosity, and exploration, connection is born. Connected kids are more courageous. They listen better. They have fewer meltdowns.
In this podcast, you’ll find simple, empowering strategies you can use right away. My hope is to give you small, practical nuggets in each episode to build your communication toolbox—because what works for children with speech and language challenges, simply works! And all parents deserve access to these skills, not just the specialists.
If you’re ready to build deeper connection and create a more peaceful, confident home, listen in! Let’s interrupt old patterns—so you can become the parent you want to be, and your child knows is on their team.
I am glad you are here!
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
https://linktr.ee/thelanguageofplay
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Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Hey Friends,
Was Your child dismissed from speech therapy and you don't remember why? Do you still have concerns about their language development? Their speech sounds? Their ability to communicate and handle the frustration from not communicating?
It is so important for you to have this understanding!
Today we dig into (1) WHY your child may have been dismissed, (2) WHAT you can do to know, and (3) HOW you can help your child now.
Always Cheering you on!!
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom and see if this program is a fit for you!
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com and write, Let's begin!
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE! to join a new community where you are free to ask questions and make friends.
Related Episodes:
Episode Series on Listening starts here:28 ”Why Won’t The Kids Listen!??” part 1: ATTENTION: 4 factors to watch for!
Episode Series on Sound Development starts here:
56 Do You Want Your Child To Speak More Clearly, but Don’t Know How to Teach it? Learn This, and You Can Teach Anything!
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Hey Friends,
Do you ever wish that you could Re-Parent yourself? Well, you can it’s true.
Many people come to adulthood and have some baggage from their upbringing. In fact, most everybody has some kind of experience that they brought with them to adulthood. Those traumatic or even "normal" experiences are not helping them be the best parent they want to be, nor it is helping them be the best human they want to be. Something lingers... even after you try to forget, forgive, and know it is done.
I want you to know that: You can speak to that part of you that is still small, still young, and still growing. You can be the parent to yourself so you get what the little you needed.
Always Cheering you on!!
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom and see if this program is a fit for you!
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com and write, Let's begin!
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE! to join a new community where you are free to ask questions and make friends.
Related Episodes:
35 EXPERT: Denise Belisle: Improving Your Child’s Behavior using Positive Intelligence
47 EXPERT: Jaci Finneman: Helping Kids Make Apology with the “Make It Right” Technique
65 Melissa Deally- Part 1 - How Food Impacts Your Child’s Behavior! Learn to Recognize a Food Reaction and How to Make the Right Changes for Your Kiddo
66 Melissa Deally- Part 2 - How Food Impacts Your Child’s Behavior! Learn Simple Strategies to Detect Food Sensitivities
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Hey Friends,
Have you ever wondered how it is that you can teach your children pre-literacy (early reading) skills? How do you practice academics what to do it in a way that it doesn’t negatively impact your phone home life? I know you don't want more homework, rather you'd like to know what to do as the day goes on!
If that’s the case for you, you will want to listen and to Shannon Ali for some easy fun ways to incorporate learning into your everyday life, and we talk about WHY it matters!
Always Cheering you on!!
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE!
ABOUT SHANNON ALI
Shannon Ali founded Daytime Playtime in 2020. Shannon is a certified teacher and certified speech-language pathologist with a minor in family and child studies. She has a passion for helping students reach their full potential in all areas of their lives. Shannon is known for being energetic and patient with children. She enjoys creating learning videos for children to continue learning on-the-go. She also hosts the Keys to Kindergarten Readiness Podcast where she teaches parents how to raise smart, independent children who love Jesus! Shannon resides in Shreveport with her loving husband Jelani and 3 children.
Shannon's Podcast: Keys to Kindergarten Readiness
Shannon's Website: https://www.keystokindergartenreadiness.com/
Listen for FREE tips for teaching your child how to read and get ready for school
Shannon's Facebook Group: Join our free community of like minded sisters in Christ
Shannon Interviewing Dinalynn on Keys to Kindergarten Readiness!
Related or Mentioned Episodes:
27 What Good is Mother Goose and Dr. Seuss? 6 Key Reasons to Indulge in These Classics
43 Teach Listening Using Sounds of Nature! Enjoy!!
Sound Development series Episodes 56-64:
56 Do You Want Your Child To Speak More Clearly, but Don’t Know How to Teach it? Learn This, and You Can Teach Anything!
57 Does Your 3-Year-Old Say Sounds Wrong? Here is How to Help Your Preschooler Talk More Clearly!
58 Does Your Child Say the R Sound Wrong? 3 Real-Life Ways Parents Can Help at Home!
59 Can Your Child Say the L Sound Correctly? Here is a Strategy for L and Other Sounds, too!
60 Should You Be Concerned When Your Child Does Not Say S? Here’s A Simple Way to Help!
61 Does Your Child Need Help Telling Similar Sounds Apart? Here’s How to Know and How to Help!
62 Is your cat a ”Dat”? Here is how to teach K and G sounds at home!
63 How Teaching Speech Sounds Makes You a Better Parent!
64 Are You Confident When Helping Your Child Produce Speech Sounds?
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Hey Friends ~Have you ever wanted to be able to teach behavior and language in a way that is "Just Fun" ~ in a way that is easy and you can apply it to your every day life, too? We often remember what language and behavior we want to teach - when the behavior is been bad or when the language isn’t working.
Today we’re going to take out a common game, Chutes and Ladders. I’d like to walk you through a way to utilize that game to be able to teach your kiddos about behavior and practice language in joy and peace. Because really, we’re just playing a game, and the characters are the people in the game. It’s not about US in that moment, so your heart is calm and so is your child's. And, we know... a calm mind and brain can learn!
Always Cheering you on!!
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE!
Related Episodes:
04 One-Year-Old Language Learning with a Book
14 Using the Game of Memory to Teach Your Child Vocabulary with Simplicity
There are many episodes that relate to this topic!! Pick a title that interests you and if you don't see what you want, email me your topic!
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Hey Friends,
Have you ever wondered which foods truly impact your child’s behavior? Or - maybe you did not yet know that what you feed your child can actually change their brain chemistry and therefore, change your child’s behavior, judgement, and understanding. But How do you know WHAT it is or if YOU OR YOUR CHILD have had too much? Melissa Deally is with us today to explain the ins and outs of how food impacts our kids! She also has a 3 week strategy for clearing your child’s system of toxins and you will KNOW if your child is dealing with food sensitivities! Listen in for amazing content today to heal your gut!
I know you are used to shorter episodes, but this information is so worth your time!! She shares so much practical information that you will want to take notes, so push pause here, and get your notebook and pen or digital notetaker! I KNOW you will be glad you listened!
Always Cheering you on!!
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE!
ABOUT THE GUEST: Melissa Deally
CONTACT Melissa: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com
Melissa’s Website: yourguidedhealthjourney.com
For more practical health information, Listen to Melissa’s podcast: Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call
And listen to MY interview getting through Late-stage Lyme disease, Episode 92 HERE
Melissa's other links: click HERE
More About Melissa:
Melissa Deally is an Integrative Mind Body Health Practitioner, also trained in NLP, Timeline Therapy and a Hypnotherapy teacher. She’s dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly heal, while detoxing their physical, mental and emotional bodies. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English speaking world.
Melissa also uses the power of functional medicine lab tests mailed to your home, while offering a very high level of support, to ensure her clients’ success, as we navigate the path bringing the bodies back into balance, while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results.
Melissa is an international speaker, three time best-selling author, and has been named to the 2022 CREA Global Award list, and the winner of the Alignable 2023 & 2022 Local Business Person Of The Year Award for Whistler. She is also the recipient of the 2022 & 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart. Melissa is the host of the “Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, a podcast offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching.
When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddle board, backcountry hiking & camping with her daughter(s), downhill or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guide unit or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time.
Thank you for joining us today!
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Hey Friends,
We hear so many opinions these days about what is healthy and what is not. If you listen to the food companies, you can many contradictory messages. Today, Melissa Deally is here to explain what is real and why, so you finally have a practical, doable answer for raising your kiddos - in this world - and be healthy, too.Melissa Deally is with us today for part 1 to explain the ins and outs of how food impacts our kids, PLUS what foods strengthen the body and brain!
She shares so much practical information that you will want to take notes, so push pause right here, and get your notebook and pen or digital notetaker! And then, plan to join us on Thursday to continue the conversation!
I am so glad you are here!
Always Cheering you on!!
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE!
ABOUT THE GUEST: Melissa Deally
CONTACT Melissa: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com
Melissa’s Website: yourguidedhealthjourney.com
For more practical health information, Listen to Melissa’s podcast: Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call
And listen to MY interview getting through Late-stage Lyme disease, Episode 92 HERE
Melissa's other links: click HERE
More About Melissa:
Melissa Deally is an Integrative Mind Body Health Practitioner, also trained in NLP, Timeline Therapy and a Hypnotherapy teacher. She’s dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly heal, while detoxing their physical, mental and emotional bodies. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English speaking world.
Melissa also uses the power of functional medicine lab tests mailed to your home, while offering a very high level of support, to ensure her clients’ success, as we navigate the path bringing the bodies back into balance, while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results.
Melissa is an international speaker, three time best-selling author, and has been named to the 2022 CREA Global Award list, and the winner of the Alignable 2023 & 2022 Local Business Person Of The Year Award for Whistler. She is also the recipient of the 2022 & 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart. Melissa is the host of the “Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, a podcast offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching.
When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddle board, backcountry hiking & camping with her daughter(s), downhill or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guide unit or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time.
Thank you for joining us today!
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Hello Parents,
This is the final episode in this series, "Helping Your Child Produce Speech Sounds." My hope for you has 3 parts:
1-that you feel more confident, have a bit more of a road map in knowing a few strategies for a few sounds.
2- that you see how learning these strategies help you manage the behaviors that are associated with your child's frustration when they cannot communicate well.
3- that you know how to work with your child's developing brain so you can target your teaching using their main operating system.
When you know how to do these things, you will more easily build skills of communicating, strengthen your connection, and have more enjoyment along the parenting journey.
For more specific help with your child in mind, contact me at hello@thelanguageofplay.com with your questions. You can also schedule a zoom call where we can meet in order to decide if working together is right for you! 15 minute Let's Meet! Session
Sincerely,
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom: https://calendly.com/hello-play/let-s-meet-session
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE!
Related or Mentioned Episodes:
56 Do You Want Your Child To Speak More Clearly, but Don’t Know How to Teach it? Learn This, and You Can Teach Anything!
57 Does Your 3-Year-Old Say Sounds Wrong? Here is How to Help Your Preschooler Talk More Clearly!
58 Does Your Child Say the R Sound Wrong? 3 Real-Life Ways Parents Can Help at Home!
59 Can Your Child Say the L Sound Correctly? Here is a Strategy for L and Other Sounds, too!
60 Should You Be Concerned When Your Child Does Not Say S? Here’s A Simple Way to Help!
61 Does Your Child Need Help Telling Similar Sounds Apart? Here’s How to Know and How to Help!
62 Is your cat a ”Dat”? Here is how to teach K and G sounds at home!
63 How Teaching Speech Sounds Makes You a Better Parent!
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Dear Parents,
Parenting is tough work! Did you know that teaching speech sounds can actually make you a better parent? It's true!! In speech sound teaching, you become more aware of the little nuances of learning and what your child needs. Your child becomes more aware of the small pieces needed and deepens trust to do the hard things.
Today, we talk about a game that is simple and you can do at home - whether your teaching speech sounds or math facts! This is a way to take the hard and let your child feel like it is easy.
Spoiler: The first part is foundational, so you know how and why this game works in your child's developing brain.
Let me know how it goes!
Sincerely,
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom: https://calendly.com/hello-play/let-s-meet-session
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE!
Related or Mentioned Episodes:
56 Do You Want Your Child To Speak More Clearly, but Don’t Know How to Teach it? Learn This, and You Can Teach Anything!
57 Does Your 3-Year-Old Say Sounds Wrong? Here is How to Help Your Preschooler Talk More Clearly!
58 Does Your Child Say the R Sound Wrong? 3 Real-Life Ways Parents Can Help at Home!
59 Can Your Child Say the L Sound Correctly? Here is a Strategy for L and Other Sounds, too!
60 Should You Be Concerned When Your Child Does Not Say S? Here’s A Simple Way to Help!
61 Does Your Child Need Help Telling Similar Sounds Apart? Here’s How to Know and How to Help!
62 Is your cat a ”Dat”? Here is how to teach K and G sounds at home!
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Hello Parents,
We are continuing our series, "Helping Your Child Produce Speech Sounds."
Today, I dive into the K and G sounds with really precise tips to make your work effective. Like so many parts of teaching. The exact skill you want to teach hinges on understanding other things. Today, you will learn what those other things are that cause K & G to sometimes be extra hard and what you can do to build confidence in both your child and you when you help them learn.
Happy Talking!
I hope you are encouraged and feel empowered!! You got this!
Always cheering you on,
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom: https://calendly.com/hello-play/let-s-meet-session
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE!
Related or Mentioned Episodes:
56 Do You Want Your Child To Speak More Clearly, but Don’t Know How to Teach it? Learn This, and You Can Teach Anything!
57 Does Your 3-Year-Old Say Sounds Wrong? Here is How to Help Your Preschooler Talk More Clearly!
58 Does Your Child Say the R Sound Wrong? 3 Real-Life Ways Parents Can Help at Home!
59 Can Your Child Say the L Sound Correctly? Here is a Strategy for L and Other Sounds, too!
60 Should You Be Concerned When Your Child Does Not Say S? Here’s A Simple Way to Help!
61 Does Your Child Need Help Telling Similar Sounds Apart? Here’s How to Know and How to Help!
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Hey Friends,
Welcome back to the series, "Helping Your Child Produce Speech Sounds." By now, you may be seeing the link between ANYTHING you want to teach and how teaching speech sounds opens YOUR MIND to understand how your kiddos learn and how their brain understands.
In this series, I have taught you simple strategies that can be done at home to teach speech sounds while kiddos are young and some strategies that help with older kiddos, too! The strategies overlap with other sounds and other skills.
I hope you are encouraged and feel empowered!! You got this!
Always cheering you on,
Dinalynn
Contact: hello@thelanguageofplay.com
Let's meet! on a 15 min zoom: https://calendly.com/hello-play/let-s-meet-session
Ready to jump into coaching? email me at dinalynn@thelanguageofplay.com
Join my FREE Facebook Community HERE!
Related or Mentioned Episodes:
56 Do You Want Your Child To Speak More Clearly, but Don’t Know How to Teach it? Learn This, and You Can Teach Anything!
57 Does Your 3-Year-Old Say Sounds Wrong? Here is How to Help Your Preschooler Talk More Clearly!
58 Does Your Child Say the R Sound Wrong? 3 Real-Life Ways Parents Can Help at Home!
59 Can Your Child Say the L Sound Correctly? Here is a Strategy for L and Other Sounds, too!
60 Should You Be Concerned When Your Child Does Not Say S? Here’s A Simple Way to Help!