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Practical Speech Therapy Activities for Home Practice June 25, 2014byHeidi Hanks School’s out for summer! This sentence can bring parents both relief and a bit of anxiety at the same time. As a parent myself my goal is to not only survive the break, but to enjoy it, and maybe even ...
Apraxia is a type of motor speech disorder that affects the way the body is able to produce speech. Motor speech disorders are neurological in nature, meaning a child’s brain has difficulty coordinating the different body parts needed to produce speech—the tongue, lips, and lower jaw. Due ...
We’ve talked a lot about helping kids with articulation disorders here on Mommy Speech Therapy. I’ve shared myArticulation Screenerto help you identify the sounds kids are saying in error as well as anArticulation Goal Trackerto help select the sounds that need to be targeted and keep track...
When I was being treated way back in the day for my disordered eating, I was forced to go to intensive outpatient therapy and see a nutritionist. I hated it because I was a stubborn pain in the ass and thought I knew better than all of those people. Let’s see if I have changed ...
Colette had weekly PT, OT and eventually speech therapy. She had frequent overnight hospital stays to adjust medication any time we saw seizure activity. There were eye appointments every 3 months because her seizure control medication endangered her vision. We drove to Houston every three months ...
I went to an amazing conference the other day on cochlear implants put on by the Cochlear Foundation. When I finished grad school 7 years ago cochlear implants were still pretty controversial. I never knew quite what to think. I left this conference deeply impressed that implanting children with...
Many of you have been interested in how to stimulate more speech from your toddlers so I thought I would share a few tricks I use as a speech therapist. Most often children just need a little more incentive to get them talking so I like to use what is kn
Mommy Speech Therapy Month:March 2011 Improving Articulation Speech Therapist 2.0 – Designed for parents, fits in your hand March 9, 2011byHeidi Hanks I have found that the most difficult thing for a lot of parents to do when trying to correct their children’s speech errors on their own ...
There are many children out there that can drink from sippy cups without affecting their speech. But, if you can set your children up for success from the beginning why wouldn’t you? If you have already gone the route of sippy cups and your child substitutes /t/ for /k/, /d/ for ...