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FEEDING ➤ June 19, 2020

Drooling, Will it End?

Drooling can be caused by postural issues, reflux, numbness, lack of sensation, an impairment of swallowing, nausea, food sensitivity, as a result of medications, poor rest posture of the jaw and/or during teething. In infant development, drooling is very common. We typically see babies drooling into the toddler years. After about two years old, excessive...

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Welcome to Speech in The City’s blog. Here you’ll find out lots of resources to help you or your child in speech and/or feeding therapy. I’m always looking for new families to meet and professionals to learn from. Contact me!

SPEECH ➤ May 24, 2020

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech? ⁣Childhood Apraxia of Speech or CAS is when there is an interruption in messaging of the brain to the mouth and lips to receive a clear signal to plan movements. This means that the mouth, lips and teeth have the ability to move but they are not getting the...

SPEECH ➤ January 2, 2019

PROMPT Therapy for Speech & Voice Disorders

PROMPT is a hands-on technique which a requires a speech pathologist attend specialized trainings in order to understand and receive certification through the PROMPT Institute. It is taught worldwide in many languages and, but with one methodology. The technique is a “tactile-kinesthetic approach”, meaning that the therapist provides cues on the lips, cheeks, jaws to...

SPEECH ➤ September 29, 2020

Echolalia and Speech Therapy

You may have heard of the term “echolalia” before, but what exactly is it? By definition, echolalia is a repetition of overheard speech. Some children and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury and other disorders may also have echolalic speech. There are two types of echolalic speech: delayed echolalia and immediate echolalia....

Therapy Resources ➤ September 1, 2020

Always Start Speech Therapy with a Skill that a Child Can Do

Starting speech therapy with a new speech-language pathologist is the start of something new for you and your family. Getting a good understanding of the child’s interests and strengths before speech sessions starts is important. As a speech-language pathologist I always start my speech therapy sessions with something that I know the child can do....

AAC ➤ August 26, 2020

Too Young for AAC?

From the start of my career as a Speech-Language Pathologist, I have worked with many children who use high-tech speech generating device systems (SGDs) or augmentative communication. While many speech-language pathologists worried that SGDs would slow down speech, I found the opposite to be true: using SGDs helped the children I worked with create an...