Breastfeeding Awareness Month – Speech in The City

August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month!

Here are some facts about breastfeeding you may have not known:

Depending on the gender of your baby, there are variations in the composition of the mother’s breast milk. There tends to be more calories in the breast milk of boy moms. 💕
As your baby gets older, the composition of the breast milk changes. This happens all the way up until 2 years of age. 🐥
Breastfed babies have on average lower rates of diabetes in their adult years.
There are 11 different positions to hold your baby in during breastfeeding, so if one doesn’t work we have 10 more to try! 👋
The volume and calories in the mother’s breast milk increase in the night hours. 😴

LANGUAGE ➤ August 26, 2025

Speech Therapy Activities Parents Can Do at Home in 10 Minutes a Day

To support your child's language development, focus on incorporating a few simple, effective strategies into your daily routine. By using these Speech Therapy Activities Parents Can Do at Home in 10 Minutes a Day, you can make a significant impact. First, make reading time interactive with repeated-line books like "Brown Bear, Brown Bear." Use different voices and pause to let your child fill in the blanks, which helps build their vocabulary and memory. Second, get down to your child's eye level to talk. Holding objects at your eye level encourages them to watch your mouth, which helps them learn how to form words. Third, respond to every sound your child makes—coos, babbles, or even grunts. Attribute meaning to their sounds and "serve it back" by turning their sounds into full sentences. Finally, use simple gestures while you talk to your child to give them a way to communicate before they have words, and consider creating a quiet play space, like a tent, for them to feel safe and calm.

SPEECH ➤ August 22, 2025

Articulation vs. Language Delay: How to Tell the Difference

A parent’s excitement to hear their child’s first words can quickly turn to concern if those words are hard to understand. As children grow, their communication skills develop at different paces, and it can be...

AAC ➤ July 22, 2025

The Power of “Let’s”: Unlocking Communication for Gestalt Language Processors

As parents and speech-language pathologists, we’re constantly searching for ways to unlock communication for our children, especially those who learn language in unique ways. If you have a child who is a Gestalt Language Processor...