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Mid-Year Academic Assessment: Could your Student Benefit from Speech and Language Therapy?

Parents can feel like they are on a perpetual hunt for better ways to support academic achievement for their children, especially when a mid-year academic assessment shows that their child is struggling or not performing up to expectations. Communication skills play a significant role in how well a student performs throughout their entire school journey, [...]

Speech Therapy May Help Reduce Emotional Responses to Communication Struggles During the Holidays

2022-12-19 / in communication disorder | Virtual Speech Therapy | Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder | Cognitive Speech Therapy / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

Effective communication skills help sustain a personal sense of well-being, but as we age, physical and psychological changes can impact those abilities. This leads to situations where adults want to engage but are unable to due to diminishing communicative abilities. According to a recent study, older adults in particular can start to feel isolated, depressed, [...]

What is Lisping?

2022-12-10 / in Speech Disorders & Articulation / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

Lisping is a common speech impediment that often appears in young children. A lisp makes producing certain letter sounds correctly difficult, due to improper tongue positioning when speaking. A lisp is often related to an orofacial myofunctional disorder. An orofacial myofunctional disorder is defined as improper patterns and behaviors in the function of muscles and [...]

What Is Cluttering In Speech?

2022-12-07 / in Speech Disorders & Articulation / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

What is a Cluttering Disorder? Cluttering in speech is a fluency disorder that is characterized by an irregular or rapid rate of speech, uncontrolled disfluencies, and in some cases other symptoms such as phonological or language errors and challenges related to attention. Individuals who use cluttered speech can be very difficult to understand and produce [...]

Great Speech Expands Access to Innovative Virtual Speech Therapy Services to More Adults, Children and Seniors

2022-12-06 / in Press Releases / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

HOLLYWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Great Speech, a pioneer and leader in virtual speech therapy, announces today it is in-network for Cigna Medicare Advantage and Cigna Commercial customers, expanding access to virtual speech therapy that is available through a national network of specialized therapists with over 200+ licenses across the United States. Its innovative approach matches [...]

How Long Does It Take For Voice Therapy To Work?

2022-12-02 / in Voice Therapy / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

What is Voice Therapy? Voice therapy focuses on helping individuals with voice disorders change and adapt their vocal behaviors and heal and support their vocal cords. The therapy helps your voice sound stronger and more like it did before the voice disorder. Voice therapy can also be helpful in preventing damage to the vocal cords [...]

How Can Seniors Improve Their Speech?

2022-11-28 / in Speech Disorders & Articulation / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

When we think about speech therapy, most of us likely think of younger children and school-based speech specialists helping children to pronounce certain words or correct a lisp. But effective communication abilities are essential at any age, including for seniors, whose speech is often affected by advancing age or various medical conditions. Apart from the [...]

Does Corticobasal Syndrome Affect Speech?

2022-11-22 / in Uncategorized / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

What is Corticobasal Syndrome? Corticobasal syndrome (also referred to as CBS) is a rare medical condition that for the most part affects movement abilities. CBS causes changes to occur in the brain and can also worsen the affected individual’s speech, memory, and swallowing abilities over time. CBS is a type of atypical parkinsonism and [...]

Can Weight Gain Cause Speech Problems?

2022-11-17 / in Speech Disorders & Articulation / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

It is widely known that being overweight can have significant effects on our health, from an increased risk of heart disease to mobility challenges. But the effects of obesity and weight gain on our brains and subsequent speech, language, and vocal abilities are not as frequently examined or discussed. The truth is that being overweight [...]

Great Speech Awarded Contract with Healthcare Highways: Provides Access to Virtual Speech Therapy for Members of Leading Health Plan

2022-11-11 / in Press Releases / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

HOLLYWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Great Speech, a pioneer and leader in virtual speech therapy, is pleased to announce its contractual partnership with Healthcare Highways, a leading developer and distributor of tailored healthcare products and solutions including high-performance networks and customized health plan services. As part of this agreement, Healthcare Highways will provide their members with [...]

Yes or No Speech Therapy Questions

2022-11-11 / in Virtual Speech Therapy / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

Yes and No are among the most powerful and meaningful words within the English language. Without these words, expressing a preference, agreement or refusal would be impossible. In the world of speech therapy, there is so much that can be accomplished simply by playing with the words yes and no. For individuals with speech or [...]

When Inflation Causes Stress Regarding Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs, Think Virtual Care

2022-11-09 / in Virtual Speech Therapy | healthcare | Voice Therapy | communication disorder | Heathcare / by Avivit Ben-Aharon

With U.S. and global inflation at a 40-year high, it should come as no surprise that some patients are canceling speech therapy sessions over as little as a $7 co-pay. Inflation-adjusted healthcare spending is falling for the first time in half a century, but that’s little help to patients who may need to [...]