Stuttering Therapy with the School-Age Child: Social Myths
The last part of this series on stuttering focuses on some social myths and how they relate to stuttering, as presented by Craig Coleman, M.A., CCC-SLP. Each myth is presented below. A praised child is a happy child. Research shows that children who are praised more frequently may become more competitive. Additionally, it is more…
Stuttering Therapy with the School-Age Child: The Research
In part one and two of this series, we talked about the importance of the patient and patient’s family input as well as the three components of stuttering. The most common question I get asked as a speech-language pathologist is “What causes stuttering?” The short answer is “We don’t know the exact cause.” However, here…
Stuttering Therapy with the School-Age Child: The ABCs
As we talked about in the last part of this series, parents play an integral part in speech-language therapy, particularly therapy for stuttering. Additionally, speech-language intervention for stuttering should also address three main areas: affective, behavior, and cognitive. These are sometimes referred to as the ABCs of stuttering. First, the affective component relates to the…
Understanding How We Speak
A new study revealed the patterns of brain activity that produce human speech. The findings may one day lead to new approaches for treating speech disorders. Most of us barely give a conscious thought to the process of speaking, but it’s one of the most complex actions we perform. In order to speak, your brain…
Stuttering Therapy with the School-Age Child
Recently, I took a course presented by Craig Coleman, M.A., CCC-SLP on ways to involve the family of a school-age child who stutters in the therapy process. He offered many great examples and ideas that will be shared in this four-part blog series. Parents are the experts on themselves and their children. The speech-language pathologist…
Tech in Treatment
Evergreen Speech and Hearing Clinic is excited to expand our use of technology during our speech and language therapy sessions. We are currently in the process of researching and implementing available technologies for the iPad to utilize in the therapy environment. ASHA has stated that use of applications on mobile devices have been shown to…
New Voices for the Voiceless
Can you imagine not being able to speak, to say hello, to tell someone you love them, to ask for your basic needs? For many children and adults this is their reality, and according to a recent article on NPR they are being given a voice for the first time in their lives thanks to…
Dialogic Reading
Last week we explored ways in which parents can help enhance their child’s IQ through simple activities at home. One of the techniques is “dialogic reading.” We wanted to give our blog readers even more information so they could use this important technique at home! Children’s experience with books plays an important role in their readiness to learn, vocabulary…
Boosting Your Child’s IQ
Earlier in the week we talked about a study that looked at the top ways to boost your child’s IQ. We’re featuring these techniques this week as ways in which you can give your child a leg up on learning. Studies show that interactive book reading (turning book reading into a conversation) can boost young…
The Perks of Preschool
Looking for more ways of enhancing your child’s IQ? All this week we’ve featured information on ways for parents to help enhance their child’s IQ from information found in a meta-analysis study conducted at New York University. What’s the next tip the study recommends, having your child attend preschool! Preschool offers novel stimuli, and opportunities to practise problem solving…