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Hello All and Happy November! For those of you that don’t already know, November is Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month.  Alzheimer’s is a progressive brain disease that slowly destroys an individuals memory and thinking skills, and eventually the ability to carry out simple every day tasks.   Research has stated that Alzheimer’s disease accounts for about 50-80 percent of dementia cases.  Alzheimer’s disease is

Hi Everyone, With Halloween approaching fast, I thought it would be nice to have a list of safety tips. I found these online from www.parentingspecialneeds.org: Halloween Safety Tip 1: Select a costume that makes your child easily visible in the dark to improve Halloween safety. Most Halloween costumes are dark colored and make it hard to spot kids while trick

Hi Everyone, This week is Halloween and I thought it would be a good idea to give everyone some fun holiday themed speech practice ideas! If you are trying to work on improving receptive language skills, have your kids categorize the candy they get trick or treating! Sorting candy will help them improve their categorization skills, which can help with

Hey everyone! In the spirit of anti bullying month I thought this was a great study to report on to you guys. A new study has just been published on how typically developing peers often judge their peers with Autism as unfriendly and untrustworthy within 30 seconds of seeing them! The journal of Autism’s study had typical 11 year olds

Hey everyone! So I know that you already know that October is Anti-Bullying Month, but it also is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. These are facts from the National Down Syndrome Society: Down syndrome occurs when an individual has a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21. This additional genetic material alters the course of development and causes the characteristics

Hey everyone, Another amazing story going on this week. Christian Ranieri is a 14 year old with Autism going to school on Long Island.  He went in front of the Board of Education of his school district to self advocate for himself, stating that after a month in school multiple staff members at his school were not following the accommodations set

Hey everyone, Hope you’re all enjoying your monday as much as I am! We’re open for business today, so I figured I would post something to cheer everyone up whose at work. I saw this article today and my heart just melted. Bubba Hunter and Semone Adkins were elected as homecoming king and queen this past week by their peers…and both

Hey guys, This month at the Long Island Center for Speech and Myofunctional therapy we are celebrating Anti-Bullying month. We are having our clients create posters that support anti bullying to show how important this month is to us. I was on twitter and saw Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, posted this heart breaking story about a special needs girl

Hi everyone, Recently I have had an increase of patients coming in complaining of increased levels of saliva!  There are plenty of reasons why excessive saliva may be present!  Drooling can result from a constant open mouth position that does not allow saliva to collect and provide the pressure cues needed to trigger the swallow. If a child/person doesn’t have