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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, […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]