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For New Years: Top 5 Ways to Help Your Child Improve Communication Skills

For New Years: Top 5 Ways to Help Your Child Improve Communication Skills     New Years is an excellent opportunity to encourage your children to focus on developing healthy habits. That can include working on ways to improve communication skills with your child. As a parent, you can incorporate these tips into your everyday […]

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My Name is Kate: Great Therapy Books for Kids

My Name is Kate: Great Therapy Books for Kids   Are you looking for a book to add to your list of therapy books for kids? Here’s one to add. This book tells the story of Kate, a little girl who has Childhood Apraxia of Speech. The disorder makes it hard for her to say

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Speech Articulation Issues in Children and How to Help Them

Speech Articulation Issues in Children and How to Help Them     Speech articulation issues  in children are characterized by a difficulty making the sounds in words properly when talking. There are developmental norms for when a child is supposed to master each speech sound, and every language has its own norms. When a speech

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How to Stop Stuttering: 3 Tips to Reduce and Manage Stuttering

How to Stop Stuttering: 3 Tips to Reduce and Manage Stuttering   Stuttering is a speech disorder that disrupts the normal flow of speech. A child or an adult who stutters repeats or prolongs sounds, syllables, or words. Many people want to know how to stop stuttering. Treatment with speech therapy depends on symptoms, age,

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What Do Parents Need to Know About a Phonological Processing Disorder?

What Do Parents Need to Know About a Phonological Processing Disorder?     A phonological processing disorder impairs a child’s ability to produce sounds and/or is an impairment of the mental representation of spoken sounds. A phonological processing disorder, which is in the family of speech sound disorders,  is sometimes mistaken as an articulation disorder,

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Reading Skills & Reading Comprehension Therapy: What Parents Need to Know

Reading Skills & Reading Comprehension Therapy: What Parents Need to Know   About Reading Skills   Reading is a skill that must be taught explicitly to a child, unlike speech and language skills, which are mastered without explicit instruction by an adult. When a child is learning to read it necessitates a number of skills,

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7 Ideas for How to Help a Child with Speech Delay

7 Ideas For How to Help a Child with Speech Delay     As speech therapists, we cannot minimize the importance of speech therapy early in a child’s life if delays are observed. What we’ve observed to be even more essential is parental involvement in speech therapy and taking learned strategies from speech therapy to

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Wondering How to Help a Child with Speech Apraxia? 3 Tips for Parents.

Wondering How to Help a Child with Speech Apraxia? 3 Tips for Parents.     One of the things parents worry about most when they get a diagnosis of Childhood Apraxia of Speech is a feeling of helplessness. They know that speech therapy is crucial to helping a child communicate well, yet parents are often

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Types of Lisps and When to Get Help

Types of Lisps and When to Get Help     There are several different types of lisps, each with its own characteristics that parents should know about. They are very common in young children and may continue into adulthood if not treated properly and early.   The sounds most often misarticulated are the /s/ and

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