DLD Awareness Day
Today, 15 October 2021, is International Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day and we are pleased to release our second edition, FREE DLD Guide for people with…
Speaking for themselves: why I choose ambitious syntax goals to help students put their words together (with research updates and resource links)
Many, if not most, children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and other language disorders have problems arranging words and phrases to express themselves clearly. This…
Language therapy works. But can we make it better?
Every year, we work to improve our practice. This year, we revisited what we know about the effectiveness of our language therapy for children with…
My child’s speech is unclear to adults she doesn’t know. Is that normal for her age? (An important research update about child speech intelligibility norms)
Parents ask us this question regularly. 1. New research and evidence-based practice Thanks to some great new research, speech pathologists have better information to share…
Beginning readers’ brains are not the same as skilled readers’ brains, so stop teaching beginners to read like they are adult experts
Unlike speech and oral language (talking and listening), reading is biologically unnatural. Most (not all) people learn to understand and to speak their first language…