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Nothing happens in isolation. Not development, not communication, not learning. So why do we still treat them that way?
In this episode of Coral Currents, I sat down with Kim Hughes and Amy Roberts — speech-language pathologists, longtime collaborators, and the founders of Talk Yoga — to hear how a sensory gym, a mini trampoline, and a shared love of yoga turned into a 10-year-old program that's changing how clinicians think about speech therapy.
The origin story is worth hearing on its own. Two SLPs notice that kids talk more when they're moving. One borrows a trampoline. The other watches two kids on a swing spontaneously create an entire airplane narrative. Then one goes off to yoga teacher training, comes home with a eureka moment, and gets her kids in the basement to start matching poses to English sounds. Talk Yoga was born.
The clinical logic underneath it is solid: gross motor comes before fine motor. A child who can't conceptualize what it means to retract their tongue might be able to feel it first in their whole body. And a child who's dysregulated can't access their targets no matter how many drills they've run. Talk Yoga builds regulation and body awareness into the session itself — so the skills are more likely to go home, to school, and apparently, to bedtime.
This episode is for any provider who's ever felt the gap between what happens at the therapy table and what happens in the rest of a child's life.
🎧 Listen to Coral Currents now — and hear why one mom found her son rocking himself to sleep saying his speech sounds.
