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Here at The Speech Room we treat speech, language, cognitive-communication, and feeding and swallowi

04/05/2020

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18/12/2019

Aphasia is an impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write. Aphasia is always due to injury to the brain-most commonly from a stroke, particularly in older individuals.
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16/12/2019

Did you know that sign language can be beneficial to not only individuals with hearing impairments, but also to babies who are first learning to communicate? In fact, babies actually develop the ability to point and gesture before they even use words to express their wants and needs! Many parents may be skeptical to introduce sign language to their babies out of fear that it may actually delay the development of spoken language. However, research as shown that sign language often provides a bridge to support a child’s spoken language development. #869-469-9750

12/12/2019

Children communicate with sounds and vocalisations from birth.
Their “speech” begins with early, involuntary sounds, and develops into sophisticated sequences of movements - using the lips, tongue, and producing all of the sounds in words and sentences.
Speech is a powerful tool for communication. To foster early communicators and language users, educators observe children’s development of:
Vocalisations or sometimes called ‘cooing’ (sounds that pave the way to verbal communication)
speech sounds (like /b/ /d/ /a/ /s/), and
phonology (the rules of our sound system).

11/12/2019

When to seek Speech Therapy for Your Child

Many parents ask the question, “How do I know if my child needs speech therapy?” While a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) has many areas of expertise, (fluency/stuttering, social language, overall language development including grammar, vocabulary, understanding concepts, following directions, etc.), the concept of articulation, or sound production, may warrant the most questions for parents of school-aged children.
Many parents notice sound errors in their child’s speech and wonder, “What’s normal for children of similar age?” “Will these errors resolve on their own?” and “How do I address this issue without bringing too much attention to it?”
Speech therapy for articulation can start with children as early as 3 years old (for sounds like /k/, /g/, etc.) and ages 4 and up and for most other sounds. An articulation chart below shows the varying age at which children typically acquire mastery of different sounds.
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10/12/2019

The recommended treatment for aphasia is usually speech and language therapy. Sometimes aphasia improves on its own without treatment.
This treatment is carried out by a speech and language therapist (SLT). If you were admitted to hospital, there should be a speech and language therapy team there.

How speech and language therapy can help
For people with aphasia, speech and language therapy aims to:
help restore as much of your speech and language as possible (reduce impairment)
help you communicate to the best of your ability (increase activity and participation)
find alternative ways of communicating (use compensatory strategies or aids) #869-469-9750

09/12/2019

Speech Therapy Exercises
Tongue In-and-Outs. Stick your tongue out and hold it for 2 seconds, then pull it back in. ...
Tongue Side-to-Side. ...
Tongue Up-and-Down. ...
Say Cheese! ...
Practices Your Kissy Face. ...
Consonant & Vowel Pairing Repetition. ...
Exercise with Speech Therapy Apps. ...
Word Games

06/12/2019

How to Make Speech Therapy More Fun at home.

• Incorporate Some Movement! Kids love to move. ...
• Play Games. Spice up your speech therapy sessions with some fun games. ...
• Choose Themed Activities.
• Try Some Crafts. ...
• Do Something Fun While Drilling Flashcard
Contact the speech room for fun learning activities and games
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05/12/2019

A speech delay might be due to:
an oral impairment, like problems with the tongue or palate (the roof of the mouth)
a short frenulum (the fold beneath the tongue), which can limit tongue movement
Many kids with speech delays have oral–motor problems. These happen when there's a problem in the areas of the brain responsible for speech. This makes it hard to coordinate the lips, tongue, and jaw to make speech sounds. These kids also might have other oral-motor problems, such as feeding problems.
Hearing problems also can affect speech. So an audiologist should test a child's hearing whenever there's a speech concern. Kids who have trouble hearing may have trouble saying, understanding, imitating, and using language.
Ear infections, especially chronic infections, can affect hearing. But as long as there is normal hearing in one ear, speech and language will develop normally.
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04/12/2019

When looking at a speech therapy goal, think if it is a goal that you will be able to look at 3-6 months from now and really be able to tell if that goal is met. With a child in early intervention, a parent’s first dream is usually for their child to be able to talk. If the goal is written for your child to use spoken words to let you know what they want, this may end up as a goal that keeps getting renewed without being met after several reviews. However, if the goal is written to be more specific and includes specific gestures or words for them to be able to use, then it will be easier for you and the speech therapist to look at that goal and say more definitively that the goal was met or not.
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03/12/2019

A child with a language delay might say words well but only be able to put two words together.
A child with a speech delay might use words and phrases to express ideas but be hard to understand.
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