SPEECH THERAPY

These are my top five tips for encouraging and helping an older child to continue speech therapy. When a child must continue speech therapy past a younger age, it can be frustrating and exhausting.

Parents are very busy people, and it can be a challenge to find the time to help your child practice their speech therapy at home. Here are my best tips for fitting in more speech therapy practice time.

Use my simple formula to make your own speech therapy games in record time. Perfect for the busy mom!

Once you have assembled a collection of tools for speech therapy, here are some fun ideas for ways to use those tools to really achieve the speech therapy goals you have set for your child.

There are several basic tools you can collect to help you work on specific areas of difficulty in your speech therapy efforts. The following is a list of all the tools I find essential for speech therapy in the home.

It is a simple matter to work with your child at home on their speech therapy. You can use this method to support your speech and language therapist or to teach your child yourself.

When your child needs speech therapy, it can be very beneficial to learn to offer speech therapy at home. This article offers a few reasons to offer speech therapy at home to your child.

For toddlers with special needs, it can be necessary to start speech therapy at a very young age. Here are several tips to help you in teaching speech therapy to the very young.

Getting help for your child should not cost a small fortune. Many affordable options for speech therapy are available if you know where to look.

Selective mutism treatment typically includes treatment of anxiety but for some children there is a need for speech therapy as well. Here is what parents need to know.

If you are a retiree looking for part time work, your services may be of value at your local speech therapy center for Parkinson's patients.

It still surprises me when I meet parents who do not understand the importance of speech therapy helping their child with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Many times parents think that speech therapy is all about articulation.

Try these at-home speech therapy techniques to help your child overcome echolalia.

In speech therapy, it is essential that the child is motivated to learn. If they do not make an effort, the therapy will not help their speech to improve. Here are some techniques that can help.

Are you prepared for your toddler's first speech therapy appointment? Here's what to expect.

Parkinson's speech therapy is a vital part of the health of older adults with tremor disorders and dementia related disorders. Here is what you need to know when selecting a clinic for your loved one.

Obtaining a speech therapy degree through distance learning programs may result in loss of vital career opportunities - here is why.

You may have to go to speech therapy for many different reasons. Whether it is for something serious or small knowing how to get the most out of your therapy is very useful in the recovery process.

For siblings of an autistic child, infant speech therapy may be necessary to help with sibling communication and language development - here is what parents need to know.

There are several easy oral motor skills exercises you can help your child do to improve their speech therapy efforts. Often, a "lazy tongue" or "mushy mouth" sound is the result of oral motor difficulties.

This article includes several tips and ideas for creating your own games to use with your child while doing speech therapy at home.

Presented here, is a guide that offers pertinent information regarding speech therapy centers in New Haven,Connecticut.

When considering a career change, you may want to consider working as a travel speech therapist as this will help you become more mobile in working with autistic children and their families.

Very often speech articulation issues in children are caused by a lack of control over the movement of the tongue. This is even more often the case in the special needs child, or a child with a cleft lip and or palate.

If you're reading this because you secretly fear your child is having developmental issues in regards to speech & language, keep on reading.

For stroke patients, it is important to begin speech and language therapy early especially when complications of Broca's aphasia are present.

In this edition I will talk about articulation disorders that come from tongue thrust - with special interest to orthodontists as well as dentists.

Having difficulty understanding your three or four year old's speech? One option may exist in your state whereby the public school system can provide a free service, weekly through the exceptional childrens' program (special education program).