age 1, he or she needs a language evaluation. If your child has a medical condition that impairs his/her communication, such as autism, certain types of cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, or Down syndrome, your child needs an evaluation and most likely speech and language therapy...
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a relatively rare Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) in which a child has difficulty planning and sequencing the movements required for speech, and difficulty with prosody. Most children with CAS have language difficulties in addition to their SSD. Most have a recep...
as the parent, are your child’s best teacher. I am aplay therapist(not an SLP), so I work with many speech-delayed children, in conjunction with their speech-language pathologist (birth-age 3) and these activities work great with them in the home, in between therapy sessions. ...
Locked out before they are locked up; WEDNESDAY ESSAY: A report by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists this week highlights the link between youth offending and a lack of speech therapy. Policy officer Alison Stroud says it is a problem prison will never solve ...
Many of these children will be referred for speech and language therapy (SLT). Why might your child need SLT? ‘There’s a huge range of reasons that a child might be referred for an SLT assessment,’ says Jon Gilmartin, a speech and language adviser with I CAN, the children’s communi...
I constantly receive email regarding Speech-Language Pathology / Speech and Language Therapy in Asia. The email comes from consumers in Asia looking for services for children and adults with communication impairments; members of "expat" / foreign communities in Asia looking for SLP/SLT services in ...
Speech and/or language therapy may continue throughout a student's school years either in the form of direct therapy or on a consultant basis. NICHCY: 1.800.695.0285 3 Fact Sheet on Speech/Language Disorders (FS11) 4 Resources 4 Brice, A. (2001). Children with communication disorders (ERIC...
Before I came to LeoMagan, Zenon has language issues. He cannot reasonate well and throws tantrum when he is unable to express himself well. I was frustrated when he threw tantrums and his school teachers had problems comprehending his needs. After therapy classes at LeoMagan have commenced, ...
N. Munoz-Vigueras, E. Prados-Roman, M.C. Valenza, M. Granados-Santiago, I. Cabrera-Martos, J. Rodriguez-Torres, I. Torres-Sanchez, Speech and language therapy treatment on hypokinetic dysarthria in Parkinson disease: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin. Rehabil.35(5), 639–655 (...
I have been a practicing Speech Language Pathologist for over fifteen years. I have worked in many different settings across a wide spectrum of specialties. I remember one of my professors in graduate school telling me Family Based Therapy was my calling, and it took me trying almost every oth...