#BHSM: Parent Education (Early Intervention Counts!, part 2)

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.

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#BHSM: Early Intervention Counts!

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.

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SLP Book Club: Inside the O'Brien's: A Novel

Okay - wow! This past week I finished reading Lisa Genova's newest book, Inside the O'Brien's...

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Teaching Self-Regulation Skills

Melt-down. Tantrum. Challenging behavior. Whatever you call it, at its core is the lack of skills needed to navigate emotional upset and/or disregulation. Self-Regulation is one of those all important executive function skills. It is "the ability to manage emotional upset and behavior", and a skill set that is particularly difficult to learn for children with language/communication disorders.

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SLP Book Club: Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism

Our March/April SLP Online Book Club selection was Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism by Arthur Fleischmann, with contributions by Carly Fleischmann. "In a world of silence, communication is everywhere. You just have to know how to look." -- Carly Fleischmann

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