Podcasts and Interviews – Speech in The City

Podcasts and Interviews ➤ July 1, 2020

The Communication Matrix with Kim Hurley MA, CCC-SLP

Rebecca and Kimberly Hurley, MA, CCC-SLP chat the communication matrix! This free resource can be so useful in planning goals, designing a team approach to assessment and a guiding to best practice for the kids we work with who have complex communication needs! There is also an audio version of our talk here: https://soundcloud.com/rebecca-taskin…

Podcasts and Interviews ➤ June 12, 2020

Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation for Brain Injury

Rebecca @rebtaskSLP and Dr. Zelinsky OD @mindeyeinstitute chat neuro-optometric rehabilitation for brain injury. Dr. Zelinsky is based in Chicago, IL and has treated many types of brain based disorders resulting in vision challenges including children with HIE and CVI (to name a couple!). During this live IGTV Dr. Zelinksy discusses her specialized and patented therapy techniques,...

Podcasts and Interviews ➤ May 28, 2020

Reflex Integration for Neurodevelopmental Rehabilitation

Rebecca @rebtaskSLP and Jake Kreindler PT @getyourbabymoving chat reflex integration and neuro-developmental rehabilitation and recovery of the brain and its effects on the mind and body. Jake is a pediatric physical therapist, cuevas MEDEK Exercises Level 3 Practitioner. He has a practice in Long Island, New York where he sees children as early as three months old...

Podcasts and Interviews ➤ May 21, 2020

Instagram Live | Park View Pediatric Dentistry

Rebecca chats live with Dr. Rima Parikh from Park View Pediatric Dentistryand chats about her tips and strategies for working with children who have special needs. We also went over hot topic issues such as tongue tie, pacifier use and more! Find them on Instagram @parkviewpeddent The link to the IGTV is here Listen to the...

Podcasts and Interviews ➤ May 17, 2020

Instagram Live | Therapy Edition

On this Instagram Live Rebecca discussed and collaborated live with professionals from many different disciplines including: Jamie Hinchey MS CCC-SLP who is an SLP at Thrive with Spectrum, and provides skilled feeding therapy, family mealtime coaching, and tube weaning services to children nationwide www.thrivewithspectrum.com Jake Kreindler, is a Pediatric Physical Therapist, Cuevas MEDEK Exercises Level...

Podcasts and Interviews ➤ May 1, 2020

Instagram Live | TalktoMeAAC

Rebecca chats live with Nicole Ponica SLP, from talktomewithaac discusses best practices for AAC use at home and during tele-therapy. https://www.talktomewithaac.com/Full recap is here:

Podcasts and Interviews ➤ March 21, 2019

TBI One Love Podcast for Brain Injury Awareness Month!

I was so honored to speak on the TBI One Love podcast this month. The podcast reaches subscribers in 50 states and 32 countries! I spoke about my role working with children who have had acquired severe traumatic brain injury and the role we as speech pathologists play in treatment and education for the patient...

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...

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...

FEEDING ➤ August 12, 2020

Mealtime Options for Picky Eaters

Food is so important to everyone. There are several simple feeding accessories that make feeding time for your toddler easier. They are both functional and fun and are all affordable. Nutridashe What is Nutridashe? The Nutridashe food picks make eating fun! Food Picks are an intermediate utensils. They allow the transition from hand to utensil...