Dear Son Last year, I watched you sitting at your desk, studying hard for exams. I saw you tap furiously away at your school laptop, scroll through online textbooks, and cut and paste paragraphs of text into Google Docs. I saw you fighting the urge – valiantly – to tab out of what you were…
In this, our third infographic on functional communication, our speech pathologist Vivien Wong, outlines 10 practical ideas parents of children aged 0-5 years can use to increase their child’s participation and communication skills. Key source: National Disability Insurance Scheme. (2014). Report of the Independent Advisory Council to the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Reasonable and Necessary Support…
Traditionally, many speech pathologists were trained to break their clients’ communication difficulties into parts in order to identify and treat communication ‘disorders’, e.g. speech sound disorders, voice disorders, fluency disorders like stuttering, developmental language disorders, and dyslexia. But most clients don’t see their challenges as disorder ‘types’. They might say: Health is a human right. Health…
“When will my late talker start to talk?” Our most frequently asked question from concerned parents. Over the years, we’ve posted lots of evidence-based information about this important topic on our website. See our related articles at the end of this post. But we made this infographic for families to highlight some of the key…
For more than seven years we’ve been writing about evidence-based speech pathology assessments and treatments for children and adults. Our website has had more than 1.3 million views, and we hope we’ve helped share useful information with families and adults who are considering speech therapy. Whenever two clients ask us the same question, we write…
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