by Brianna Guild M.H.Sc.SLP | Feb 13, 2021 | Practicing Speech at Home with your Child, What Speech Therapy Looks Like
How do I practice language at home with my child? *For purposes of this blog, gender of child was randomly chosen as “she/her/hers” If your child has a speech and language delay, you want to do as much as you can to help her! You have her on the waitlist for publicly...
by Constance Merwin, M.Sc. SLP (C) | May 4, 2019 | Practicing Speech at Home with your Child, What Speech Therapy Looks Like
Practicing Articulation at Home with your Child Life is busy! Parents are juggling their own work commitments, home needs, all of their children’s extra-curricular activities, and staying on top of their children’s academic needs. When is there time for speech therapy...
by Constance Merwin, M.Sc. SLP (C) | Mar 25, 2019 | What Speech Therapy Looks Like
Should I Cut My Child’s Tongue Tie? A very hot topic of debate in the field of speech-language pathology, is the issue of tongue tie clipping. Some professionals (dentists and medical doctors) are still recommending that children with speech delays have their tongue...
by Sherry Peter, M.Cl. Sc. SLP (C) | Sep 12, 2018 | Reading and Literacy Development, What Speech Therapy Looks Like
What is Dyslexia? The term dyslexia comes from 2 Greek words: 1. “dys” meaning difficulty 2. “lexia” meaning language Children with dyslexia have difficulty acquiring the language skills of reading, writing and spelling despite having adequate skills in other areas of...
by Constance Merwin, M.Sc. SLP (C) | Aug 29, 2018 | What Speech Therapy Looks Like
How Do I Know if My Child Has Autism? Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a disorder which is based on a collection of characteristics. Due to the nature of a “spectrum” disorder, there is varying degrees of severity and presentation of the characteristics associated...
by Constance Merwin, M.Sc. SLP (C) | May 22, 2018 | Speech and Language Developmental Norms, What Speech Therapy Looks Like
How Do I Know if My Child Is Stuttering? What is Dysfluency? When a child’s speech is bumpy and not smooth, we refer to that as “dysfluent” speech. “Dysfluent” speech is characterized by repetitions of sounds, part words, whole words, prolongations of sounds, or even...
