Last month I was contacted by a family looking for speech therapy services for their nine year old daughter. She already had a fair bit of speech therapy under her belt, but was still struggling [...]
Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays! Trips to the farm, haunted houses, costumes, face painting, decorations, baking, and candy! Each family seems to have their own traditions. [...]
In March 2020, after over twenty five years of face-to-face speech and language therapy, I took the leap into virtual online therapy. Unlike past career choices teeming with limitless [...]
This past month I was contacted by two sets of parents, each concerned about their children’s speech sound errors. In both cases, the parents had been recommended years earlier to [...]
“No word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause” – Mark Twain I couldn’t agree more! Pausing is one of the most overlooked delivery techniques. By [...]
It can be very difficult for parents to watch their children struggle with speech. Close to 5% of young children begin to stutter. Almost 75% of them will outgrow stuttering on their own within [...]
January is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month in Canada. Increased age is a well-known risk factor for dementia. And since women live longer than men, that makes women more likely to [...]
As far back as I remember, Christmas time always evoked mixed feelings. Being Jewish, my family celebrated Hanukkah, which sometimes coincided with Christmas and other times did not. My [...]
Worldwide, non-native speakers of English outnumber native English speakers by a ratio of 3:1. Just think about that! More people speak English as a second language then there are [...]
The term “late talkers” describes children who have a limited spoken vocabulary at around 2 years of age. Keep in mind that first words appear close to 12 months, [...]