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Hi everyone!  Since I posted about literacy last week, I’d like to share some information about phonological awareness skills as they’re closely linked to literacy skills.  What is phonological awareness? Phonological awareness skills are important in order to develop good reading skills.  Having good phonological awareness skills means that a child is able to manipulate sounds and words, or “play”

Hi everyone, since March is literacy month, many schools have been doing various things to promote literacy in school aged children. Even within our speech offices, we have been promoting literacy by rewarding reading, as well as reading to our patients in the waiting rooms. Today I wanted to share some tips for improving literacy in younger children, as I

Hi everyone! Last week I posted about stuttering, which is a fluency disorder that many people are familiar with. There’s also another fluency disorder that many people have never heard about. It’s called cluttering, and here are some facts about it:    What is Cluttering?   Cluttering is a fluency disorder in which an individual’s speech is perceived as too

Hi everyone! Last week I posted about stuttering (a fluency disorder), and a few ways to determine whether your child’s disfluencies are mild, moderate or severe. Today I wanted to share some more information for those of you who think your child is disfluent, but are still not sure if an evaluation is necessary. After all, we’ve all heard stories

If your child has difficulty speaking and tends to hesitate on or repeat certain syllables, words, or phrases, he/she may have a stuttering problem. But he/she may simply be going through periods of normal disfluency that some children experience as they learn to speak. Below are some characteristics of normal disfluencies and some characteristics of a child with a fluency

According to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA), What are feeding and swallowing disorders? Feeding disorders include problems gathering food and getting ready to suck, chew, or swallow it. For example, a child who cannot pick up food and get it to her mouth or cannot completely close her lips to keep food from falling out of her mouth may

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