Parents have expressed their concern about providing speech therapy in a language that is not their home language. The fear of their child forgetting their home language can be concerning. In America, the education systemRead More
BACK TO SCHOOL! Summer is over and students are back at school. Follow these tips to help ring in the new school year with success: Aquire necessary school supplies Visit with your child’s teacher to
We are often confronted with this question. As SLPs, we often answer these types of questions with a reference to generally accepted practice, evidence-based findings, or some combination thereof. All of our decisions are inherently
How important is attendance? Extremely important! If your child is currently receiving speech therapy, please attend. Poor attendance not only affects your child’s therapy session time, but potential results. SLP’s make recommendations on frequency, length
Gérmenes. ¡Los gérmenes están por todas partes! ¿Qué podemos hacer como padres para prevenir una enfermedad? Como terapeutas, ¿Qué debemos hacer para apoyar un ambiente de aprendizaje limpio y saludable? Si aún no has pensado
As with any skill that we are trying to develop most know that proper practice helps one to improve with that particular skill. However, with the daily challenges life sends in our direction it is
Now that we have introduced many of our topics that we generally work with as SLPs would like to further the discussion on those that are considered monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual. In the most basic
Perhaps you’ve wondered about bilingual speech and language therapy. Maybe not? That’s OK. This post will briefly introduce some frequently asked questions related to bilingual therapy. We will start to answer some of those questions–please
Advances in healthcare in combination with an increasingly diverse population have raised the likelihood that SLPs will encounter patients that may only speak a language other than English (non-English speaker), another language in addition to
In our previous Better Hearing and Speech Month posts, we addressed why one should seek the services of a speech-language pathologist and we reviewed the areas that are typically addressed in evaluations completed by speech-language