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Can Online Therapy Work for my Child?

Speech Therapy Barriers Your child needs speech therapy but the drive to the clinic is two hours…one way.  Or perhaps your kiddo needs to see someone at least once or twice a week but it’s really hard to make it to all those appointments.  And now we face this situation with schools being closed and people are told to stay in their homes.   What if there was a way to get past all these barriers so your child could have speech therapy? Why Online Therapy? Online speech therapy has been around for decades.  Now is the perfect time to look into it. Online therapy is just that, speech therapy.  All the resources that a speech therapist uses during a session can be generated online.  A blank writing board, visual and audio supports, games…all these can be found online and more. Online speech therapy can also get around some pressing problems that may have kept you … Keep Reading…

Phonological Processes Revisited: Cluster Reduction

Part of Learning and Growing Your child is starting to talk and a lot of what she says sounds like gibberish, which is normal.  She still needs more practice. She still needs to do a lot more listening to get better at it. It could also be because the body parts (tongue, teeth, etc.) needed for speech are still developing. For many reasons, your child uses phonological processes to talk. Think of it as a verbal “short cut” so that she can get the words out. Her speech isn’t perfect, but you can get the gist of what she’s saying. You notice that she says things like “pider” instead of “spider” or “chock-it” instead of “chocolate.”  It’s adorable. Time To Worry?  A few years have passed.  In many ways she’s become more intelligible, a lot easier to understand. Many of the phonological processes she relied on are gone. Her speech and language skills have improved … Keep Reading…

What is Hyperlexia?

Reading Already? What do these things have in common? A child is grocery shopping with his mom and reading all the food labels. The kicker: he’s only two years old. A mom is frantically trying to catch her son, who is also two years old. He is flapping his hands and running around a parking lot trying to read all the license plates. Your little guy is around the same age as the two kids above. He can see a movie once and recite the dialogue word for word. Okay, I know you’re anxious to know what the answer is, so I’ll tell you: they’re all examples of hyperlexia. Defined As Hyperlexia is the precocious ability for some kids to read at a very young age. Maybe you’ve seen your fair share of kids start to read at a young age and are voracious readers.  Most children start reading around the age four or five, … Keep Reading…