For Better Hearing & Speech Month (#BHSM) this month I have been writing a blog series on what parents wished they had known sooner. The focus this week is the third theme: Augmentative-Alternative Communication (AAC)!
AAC, BHSM, early intervention | in AAC, BHSM Last week I started a blog series for Better Hearing & Speech Month (#BHSM) on what parents wished they had known sooner. In preparation for writing my BHSM newsletter this year, I posed the following questions to parents of children already receiving speech-language services: What do you wish you had learned sooner? What do you wish others understood? Three themes emerged in their responses. You can read about the first theme in my post #BHSM: Early Intervention Counts! Today I want to focus on the second theme: parent education.
BHSM, early intervention, parent education | in BHSM May is Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM). This year's theme is Early Intervention Counts! As I contemplated a topic for my BHSM newsletter this year, I started to wonder what parents wished they had known earlier. So I started asking.
BHSM, early intervention | in BHSM Earlier this month, I wrote a post about speech (Apraxia, Fluency, Voice, oh my! The S in SLP) and another about language (Receptive, Expressive; Oral, Written - The L in SLP). In this post, I want to focus on what I consider the most important part of my job: communication (the "P" in SLP)! What is communication? And why to I make a distinction between speech, language, and communication? Read on!
BHSM, communication | in BHSM Speech-Language Pathologist is a mouthful. Which often leads to the use of terms like 'speech therapy', 'speech therapist' or 'speech teacher'. Which in turn (unfortunately) perpetuates the idea that SLPs only work with kids who struggle to say their /r/, /s/ or /l/ correctly. However, speech disorders are only part of what the field of speech-language pathology covers. Some SLPs do choose to focus on speech (e.g. specialize in treating apraxia or stuttering). In reality, it only makes up a small percentage of what I do.