Did you know that parents play a large part in their child’s language development? Studies have now concluded that children who are read to and spoken to in the early part of their development have larger vocabularies and better grammar than those children who weren’t....
There is nothing more precious than a sweet baby exercising their skills in talking with their high-pitched baby voice. With W’s in place of R’s “FWOG” for Frog and L’s in place Y’s “Lellow” for Yellow, it is a darling time of developing language skills....
The holidays can be a very stressful time when you have a child with a communicative challenge. Your child may feel a lot of anxiety about the changes in their schedule, the sensory overload of holiday activities, and the social pressures during family and other...
There are several possible reasons your toddler is not talking. We would never presume to know why your toddler is not talking based on anything less than a speech, language and hearing evaluation with your child. But there are some common reasons a toddler might...
An important part of helping young children who may need speech therapy is early intervention. To achieve early intervention with speech therapy it is vital to know the speech and language developmental milestones. While all children develop at a different pace, knowing what the “normal”...
There are a large variety of speech and language disorders that can benefit from speech therapy. One often misunderstood speech-language disorder is Apraxia. What is Apraxia? Apraxia is a motor speech disorder. It manifests as having trouble saying sounds, syllables, and words. The brain will...
The word speech, in the context of speech therapy, encompasses all the processes of making the sounds of speech. Potential speech disorders include articulation, apraxia, stuttering, phonological and more. Articulation refers specifically to how a sound is formulated with the mouth. Errors in the sounds...
Most people think of speech therapy as being exclusively for those with articulation challenges. Articulation refers to how sounds of speech are made. Often speech therapy is employed when difficulty making specific sounds like /r/, /sh/, /th/ occurs, such as when a child says “fwee”...
Is your child having difficulty following directions? If you repeatedly ask your child to do something and they just can’t seem to make it happen you are likely quite frustrated. But how can you tell if it is a behavioral problem or something more? Often...
Does your child lose all control when things don’t go as expected? Here are five ways to build flexible thinking skills and help your child more easily go with the flow when plans change.