A new "project": Sound of the Week

A while back I did a "letter of the week" project. At the time I was working with several young children with speech and language impairments who were also at risk for literacy difficulties. That project was actually the impetus for starting this blog! Just as I was wrapping up the letter of the week project, I had a shift in focus for several of my clients. Apraxia and other motor speech disorders popped to the forefront. What evolved was essentially a "sound of the week" project...

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Pat, I'd like to buy a vowel.

As a speech-language pathologist, it wasn't until I started working with children with significant speech impairments that I started to really appreciate the importance of vowels. I mean, I knew vowels are important. After all, without vowels our words have no meaning. Consider the following...

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AAC: No good reason to wait!

"...AAC is a means to an end, not the end and not the last resort ... Not the thing we turn to in the end, but something we can start with..."

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Apps for Speech

Finding apps in the Apps Store can be a daunting task, especially when looking for apps to suit a particular purpose. If you are looking for apps to supplement your child's "speech work" at home, here are apps developed specifically to target speech sound production skills.

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Apraxia, Fluency, Voice, oh my! The S in SLP

The "S" in SLP stands for "speech" and is probably the most widely known part of a SLPs job. But, did you know that difficulties with "speech" include a variety of different diagnoses? "Speech" can mean: articulation, phonological process, apraxia, dysarthria, fluency, voice...

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