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National Alzheimer’s Month: Value of Speech Therapy to Manage the Disease

November is National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, hosted by the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, and it is the ideal time to stop and recognize the speech pathologists who help dementia patients maintain their quality of life. About 6.5 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), one of [...]

What is RPM Speech?

2022-11-07 / in Autism Spectrum Disorder & Asperger's / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

What is RPM? RPM refers to the Rapid Prompting Method which is a technique used to aid communication for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other disabilities that affect communication. RPM encourages those who are struggling to communicate through spoken word to use techniques such as typing, pointing, and writing. The Rapid Prompting Method was [...]

What is a Lazy Tongue?

2022-11-04 / in Uncategorized / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

The highest quality voice and the broadest vocabulary aren’t worth much if the articulation of the words is not correct. The words we speak in the English language are comprised of individual sounds that are referred to as phonemes. These phonemes are combined to form words and give meaning. In order to produce sounds [...]

Speech Therapy Exercises to Try at Home

2022-10-31 / in Uncategorized / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

What is Speech Therapy? Speech therapy is the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of speech and language disorders and other communication challenges. The goal of speech therapy is to improve speech, language, and communication skills, focusing on things such as fluency, phonology, and articulation. Speech therapy also helps to boost comprehension abilities, independence and confidence. Speech [...]

Speech Therapy for Adult Stuttering

2022-10-28 / in Stuttering / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

What is a Stutter? A stutter – also referred to as a stammer – is a speech disorder that relates to significant and frequent challenges with the regular flow and fluency of speech. Individuals who struggle with stuttering know the words they want to say and the information they want to convey, but they have difficulty clearly [...]

Does Speech Delay Mean Autism

2022-10-25 / in Autism Spectrum Disorder & Asperger's / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

Perhaps you have noticed that your child isn’t able to speak with as much fluency and clarity as other children their age, or that they aren’t responding to their name. It is common for parents of young children to be concerned with their child’s speech and language development. When a child is [...]

Takeaways from the Cigna Medicare Advantage Conference

2022-10-21 / in Virtual Speech Therapy | Professional Development | healthcare | Voice Therapy / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

Recently we had the opportunity to attend one of the series of national meetings that Cigna holds every year to update sales and call center teams on the company’s 2023 Medicare Advantage Plan. The sessions allow plan administrators and their sales team to meet with innovative offerings and learn about their services. These round-table [...]

National Healthcare Quality Week Celebrates Outcomes Standards for Patient Care, Including Virtual Speech Therapy

2022-10-21 / in Voice Therapy | healthcare | Virtual Speech Therapy / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

October 16-22 is Healthcare Quality Week, sponsored by the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), to celebrate the profession and raise awareness of the positive impact healthcare professionals have in their organizations and communities. Healthcare competencies are vital in achieving quality, safety, equity, and value to meet patient expectations about their care. There was a [...]

Can Essential Tremor Affect Speech?

2022-09-30 / in Voice Therapy / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

What is an Essential Tremor? Essential tremor is a neurological condition that results in involuntary movements such as shaking, or trembling and can affect various parts of the body. In most cases, the tremor is first noticed in the hands, when the individual affected is attempting to do something requiring fine motor skills such as [...]

How Do I Stop Losing My Accent?

2022-09-28 / in Accent Modification / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

Our accents can play a major role in our personal identity and how others perceive us. Every single person in the world has an accent, and within the English language, there is a wide variety of accents. Many people who have a regional accent or whose first language isn’t English wonder about how to [...]

In-School Speech Therapy vs. Virtual Speech Therapy

2022-09-26 / in School Success & Reading Comprehension / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

In School vs. Virtual Speech Therapy For many years, children of all ages have been participating in traditional “in-person” speech therapy in private clinics and school classrooms across the country. With the advancements in technology and video communication in recent years, speech therapy through an online platform is becoming more and more popular. As we [...]

What is a Specific Language Impairment?

2022-09-25 / in Language Disorders / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

Specific Language Impairment (also referred to as SLI) is a term for a developmental language disorder that occurs when language skills do not develop as they should, and these challenges cannot be attributed to other developmental conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, traumatic brain injury, apraxia or speech or hearing loss. SLI is also sometimes [...]