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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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11 Tips to Engage Your Child During Online Speech Language Therapy

11 Tips to Engage Your Child During Online Speech Language Therapy   Online speech language therapy can help children at any age. And let’s face it, since COVID and the instability is causes may be here to stay for a little bit longer, virtual learning might still end up being a part of your child’s

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Parent question: What are two year old speech milestones?

Parent question: What are Two Year Old Speech Milestones?   One of the parents coming to Therapy Works Together for a screening for her child asked the speech therapist: “What are two year old speech milestones? I’m not sure what my child should be saying.”   Kids are growing up so fast and are exposed

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Video Series: Practicing Speech Therapy at Home – Do You Need Something Special?

Practicing Speech Therapy at Home: Do You Need Something Special?     Parents play a very important role in their children’s progress when they attend speech therapy and in language development in general. Practicing speech therapy at home gives parents more opportunities to experience, connect, and communicate in relevant, everyday activities throughout the day.  

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Video Series: Speech Therapy at Home for Parents – Piece by Piece

Video Series: Speech Therapy at Home for Parents – Piece by Piece     The best way to encourage your child’s language development is with some speech therapy at home. The difference is that you are the speech therapist and that therapy happens during regular everyday activities. In the bath, around the dinner table and

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Mixed Receptive and Expressive Language Disorder. What Can Parents Do?

Mixed Receptive and Expressive Language Disorder. What Can Parents Do?   When a child says their first words it is one of the greatest joys of being a parent. So when there is a problem with understanding or speaking, parents are worried or frustrated. The child may often feel the same. Some parents put off

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Parents Need the Right Diagnosis for Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Parents Need the Right Diagnosis for Childhood Apraxia of Speech   Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is considered to be a rare speech problem in children. However, because it is rare and researchers believe that other types of problems may occur more often than this does – there has been less research into how common

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Speech Delay Toddler Tantrums? Here’s What to Do.

  Speech Delay Toddler Tantrums? Here’s What to Do. Research has shown that toddlers who have fewer than 50 words by age 2 are twice as likely to have severe and frequent temper tantrums. A Speech delayed toddler tantrum is more difficult because parents are not sure what they can do to help a child

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How Many Words Should My Child Have?

How Many Words Should My Child Have?   Parents are often asking our speech therapists: How many words should my 2 or 3-year-old toddler say, as well as “when should babies say their first words?” Language development milestones mark the stages of language development for your child. They are both receptive (hearing and understanding) and

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