Stuttering in School
The National Stuttering Association sent out some useful tips and facts early this week for parents of children who stutter. We want to share this wonderful resource with you to help guide you and your child through the important first few weeks of school! The webpage includes information to give to your teachers, information for other families…
Accent Modification
Speech Program Director Maryam Sadrzadeh recently attended a workshop for Compton PESL, a program for modifying or reducing foreign accents. The workshop was held in Philadelphia, and covered digital recordings, the screening process, transcription of American English Speech using IPA, interpretation of evaluation results, creating customized therapy plans, measuring results and much more. Strong accents…
Fun with the Eastside SSG
This summer the NSA Eastside Stuttering Support Group (SSG) took a trip to the putt-putt course for a fun filled evening of competition! Staff of ESHC, members of the SSG along with friends and family hit the putting green at Redmond Willows Run Golf Course. To see photos from the day of fun, check out…
Speech Continued Education
In July, Speech Program Director Maryam Sadrzadeh attended a course called “Listening with Our Eyes, Ears, and Hearts.” The course was given by Carla Brooks and covered a number of topics related to autism spectrum disorders. In addition, Maryam took two online courses in June on Central Auditory Processing Disorders ((C)APD). The courses included screening tools,…
Reading Challenge Favorites
With 1,343 books read, we wanted to know just what books are the most popular out there this summer! We tallied up all the books our superstar readers read over the two month period and came up with a top ten list! #1 Fancy Nancy #2 Clifford #3 Juni B Jones #4 Arthur #5 Harry…
Congratulations Charissa
We are excited to announce Charissa Holcomb as our summer reading challenge winner 2010! Charissa took the challenge seriously, reading 204 books in two months! Not only did Charissa hit the books, she brought her brother and sister into the fun, reading to them nightly. For being our grand prize winner, Charissa was awareded a…
Autism, an ‘Alien View’
Speech-language pathologist Kate Pilant found an interesting story on an ‘outsiders’ perspective to Autism from NPR earlier this week. The segment shares the story of a 27-year-old woman, Lisa, who tells of her life and observations of neurotypicals (those without autism). The story combines current theories, research and Lisa’s ‘Alien View’ of Autism disorder. Lisa recalls…
Guest Grand Rounds
Last week our speech team had the opportunity to perform their weekly grand rounds meeting with a talented, experienced and highly respected speech-language pathologist, Carla Brooks. Carla is an expert in the area of Autism through the lifespan and provided the team with new perspectives and considerations in treating patients who have Autism. The team…
Evolution of Speech
Yesterday NPR featured a story on the evolution of speech in humans. If you’ve ever wondered just how sound is produced and how humans evolved to create the sounds we do today, take a listen! The six minute segment interviews experts in the fields and explains how evolution has played a part in the structure…
Till Next Summer…
Our Summer Fun Speech Sessions came to an end this Saturday in our Redmond office. The final days were spent cheering and showing our ESHC pride during Sports Fan Day. If you’re looking to find all the photos from the past two weeks, visit our facebook page. And don’t forget, we still have our reading…