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Vocal nodules are benign (noncancerous) growths that form on the vocal cords. Over time, these growths become hard and thick, similar to calluses that can form on the hands. Vocal nodules can result in a person’s voice sounding hoarse, breathy, and lower in pitch. Vocal abuse may cause vocal nodules and continuing vocal abuse may exacerbate the growths over time.

Memory strategies are techniques that we utilize to assist us in recalling information. The information that we take in undergoes the three stages of memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval. The encoding stage of memory adapts information into a design stored in the brain. The information is then either stored in the long-term memory or short-term memory. This allows us to

Thumb sucking is a natural reflex that promotes feelings of safety, comfort and pleasure in children. However as children grow older, thumb sucking may impede proper growth of the mouth. Thumb sucking may also lead to misaligned dentition, a high roof in the mouth, and a lisp. Thumb sucking may also impede the child from learning other ways to cope

Chewing plays an important role in speech development. The introduction of solids into a baby’s diet helps to promote a healthy nutritional balanced diet. Additionally, solid foods assist in developing oral motor skills. These skills include the various movements of the mouth, lips, tongue, cheek and jaw. These muscles correspond with the muscles used for the progression of speech. Furthermore,

Selective Mutism is a speech disorder in which children will speak in some seniors but not in others. These children may or may not have an underlying speech or language disorder. Thus seeing a Speech therapist is important inorder to address any underlying speech and language impairment. Treatment for Selective mutism often involves a multidisciplinary team. That often includes a

Childhood Apraxia is a speech disorder in which children can not produce the muscle movements needed to produce speech. Children with CAS do not have any underlying muscular dysfunction. The brian’s of children with CAS can’t send the correct message to their articulators in order to move and create speech. The speech of children with Apraxia often do not have

Children with CAPD have difficulty understnaind auditory information. They do not however have hearing loss. CHildren with CAPD have difficulty processing information in background noise. They can often appear as being easily distracted and unfocused. CAPD can often be misdiagnosed as ADHD or a Learning Disability. Thus accurate evaluation is important. In order for treatment to be effective. https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/clinical-topics/central-auditory-processing-disorder/

Dysarthria is a speech disorder caused by muscular weakness. In order to speak we use many different muscles including but not limited to our lips, tongue and throat. Patients with Dysarthria have muscular weakness leading to slurred muffled sounding speech. Patients with Dysarthria have an inability to effectively move their muscles in order to produce precise clear speech. Dysarthria can

Hey Everyone! My name is Lauren Farrell, a Speech Language Pathologist here at the Suffolk Center for Speech. For the month of August I will be posting various articles on speech and language resources, recent news, and even fun activities you can do at home. This week will be focused on: Autism Following weeks will include: Feeding therapy Voice Stuttering/Fluency