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I’m happy to welcome Scott Prath, M.A., CCC-SLP, the Vice President of Bilinguistics in Austin, Texas to share his expertise on bilingualism and speech disorders with us. Distinguishing between bilingualism and speech disorders is vital when it comes to treating the bilingual population and I...
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Most speech-language pathologist dislike working on R. Many have difficulty in treating it because they were not trained to think of the R sound in so many combinations. They work on initial R, medial R and final R, just like the other c...
I have had a few requests for how to teach the Y sound. Here is a brief explanation of how I teach the Y sound in speech therapy. Learining the Y sound all by itself To teach the /y/ sound start by asking your child if they can say the […] Continue Reading...
I decided to reblog this post as we move into the Solstice and New Year. The energies now are particularly potent for vibrational shifts, and for setting yourself up for new goals and creations in 2022. To support you I’m running my final workshop of the year this Saturday –Manifesting...
Currently, Molly is on four different seizure medications, she has physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy weekly. If you look at Molly, you see a beautiful, almost two year-old, red headed toddler. She is amazing and an inspiration. Molly’s vocabulary is currently limited...
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 ...
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 is to teach that initial correct production of a sound. That is why I was so excited to discover Speech Buddies. While I just […] ...
s attempts at communication. Your child seems to understand language, but expressively the sounds and syllables of their words seem to be off target. You consult a speech language pathologist (“SLP”), who uses the term “apraxia” as a possible reason for your child’s speech difficulties...
palate and jaw for clear speech. As a result they simplify complex words in predictable ways until they develop the coordination required to articulate clearly. For example, they may reduce consonant clusters to a single consonant like, “pane” for “plane” or delete the weak syllable in a ...