Posts Tagged ‘speech therapist’
Keeping Progress on Track: How Parents Can Support Speech Therapy Over the Holidays
The holiday season is a time for celebration, but it can also bring disruptions to your child’s regular routines, including speech therapy sessions. It’s common for children to lose some of the progress they’ve made during the break from therapy. However, as a parent, you can play a crucial role in ensuring your child maintains…
Read MoreSpeech Exercises to Produce the /r/ Sound
The /r/ sound is important in speech. It is considered a high-frequency sound. This means that it occurs more often in the English language than most other sounds. The only sounds that occur more often are the /n/ and /t/ sounds. Is your child able to produce the /s/ sound? Most children will master the…
Read More5 Ways to Increase your Child’s Intelligibility
Intelligibility refers to how clearly a child is able to speak and how much of their speech an adult is able to understand. Often, parents are able to understand a child’s speech much better than others due to familiarity. However, it is important address your child’s intelligibility so that they will be able to clearly…
Read MoreOur Top Online Learning Resources to Support Speech and Language Skills
We have compiled a list of our top online resources to help support children while they are not in school. Connect Teletherapy is able to provide online speech and occupational therapy services to any family in the US, however, we know that is not an option for every family right now. To help fill the…
Read MoreSpeech Sound Production Developmental Timeline
The biggest fear as a parent is wondering if your child’s speech sound production is developing as normally as their peers. The problem is, most parents aren’t also childcare professionals. To an untrained eye, if a child is still mixing up “th” sounds at the beginning and ends of words when they enter the second…
Read MoreHow Teletherapy is Breaking Barriers:
4 Barriers to Entry with Traditional Speech Therapy and Teletherapy If you’re new to the idea of teletherapy and you’ve not already read our previous blog post “what is teletherapy” then please check that post out as well. You can also check out ASHA’s stance on teletherapy. Teletherapy is a really simple concept. By making…
Read MoreSpeech And Language Developmental Milestones
Speech and language are skills that we depend on to effectively communicate with the world and connect with those around us. As a speech pathologist, it is my job to help parents decide if their child may need speech therapy to assist in their language development. To help with this, I have listed some important…
Read MoreWhat is Speech Teletherapy?
Teletherapy is a hugely expanding service that is improving the ability of clients to connect with speech therapists virtually. Due to limited access and full schedules, speech therapists are now seeing their clients virtually. Teletherapy allows for schools, parents, and individuals seeking speech therapy services to connect with knowledgable professionals while allowing flexibility in scheduling…
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