Season 5 Episode #2 Jeaneen Tang is a Language Whisperer!!!

Send us Fan MailC4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved.   We also write children’s books, host this podcast, and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other.   Please check out PIZZADAYS.ORG to support our important work. Season 5 Episode #2 Jeaneen Tang is coming from Los Angeles, CA (inform, inspire, & transform)You can find Jeaneen via her website playdumbandsabotage.comAbout our guest: Amongst her many other amazing attributes and talents: Jeaneen Tang is an actress, author, mother, advocate, & a speech-language pathologist with 23 years of experience working with a wide range of clients from early intervention (0-3 years old) to the elderly. She specializes in early language development and has a passion for training parents, caregivers, and other educators on how to best to address the needs of young children with learning to understand and express themselves. Jeaneen’s goal is to shake up how we approach language development and to decrease the number of children needing speech therapy. Having worked in schools, preschools, and providing early intervention in homes, Jeaneen has first-hand knowledge of how we interact with children shapes the way they develop. Although there are many children who truly need speech therapy services due to a disability, diagnosis, or impairment, Jeaneen feels a good number of children who are identified as needing early intervention speech therapy could be prevented if there was more parent, caregiver, and educator training on strategies to present and practice language.Jeaneen, thanks for sharing your many gifts with people all over the world, for empowering educators, parents, friends…with knowledge of helping people communicate to the best of their ability and for being our guest… welcome to the show!TOTD – “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.  Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”                                                                                                                                                           Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.In this episode:What was life like growing up?What are your life’s essential ingredients?The importance of family…How did you decide to go into Speech Therapy?What got you into acting?The importance of community, tribe, team, culture….creating opportunity to develop our communication skills…How does play help build great communicators?Autism Spectrum Disorder – Neurodiverse, Neurodivergent…What are some red flags for new parents as far as language development?PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE…Technology as a tool or deterrent?Parent education on how to help their children be great communicators…play, interact, relate concepts… into language acquisition…What is communication?Processing the emotion of communication especially in young people…Congrats on the becoming an author…great reviews…. Highlights of the book…The importance of self-awareness and self-love…Finding fulfillment in life?  How do you define fulfillment?Great coaches and mentors…Legacy