Speech Disorder: Speech Disorders: Causes, Treatments and Therapies

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The Lidcombe Program

The Lidcombe Program is a behavioural treatment program for children who stutter. It consists of two phases and is conducted by parents. The Lidcombe Program...

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Individuals with severe speech disorders sometimes cannot communicate verbally and instead rely on another means of communication. These other options are co...

Child Abuse and Speech Disorders

Child abuse can take many forms including physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional abuse. While physical abuse and sexual abuse usually leave marks on a ch...

Apraxia of Speech

The area of the brain that controls speech and language is usually located in the left hemisphere, though in some left-handed individuals this control centre...

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Speech Concern Checker

Describe the speech difficulty you or your child is experiencing and get guidance on what it might be. Takes about 2 minutes.

Speech Exercise Finder

Get personalised speech exercises to practise at home based on your specific difficulty and age group. Takes about 2 minutes.

Developmental Disabilities and Speech Difficulties

Developmental disabilities often lead to associated speech difficulties. Defining such disabilities, understanding the different types of such disabilities,...

Using Board Games to Encourage Speech

Board games are a classic type of family entertainment, and the fun they bring can be an important part of helping those in speech therapy enjoy their time a...

Using the Internet in Speech Practice

The Internet has become a powerful tool in speech and language therapy and individuals can take advantage of this vast array of information for their home pr...

Speech Practice and Household Chores

It would be easy to think that speech practice only takes place during defined times and assigned activities, but speech should ideally be practiced at all t...

Questionnaire: Do You Encourage Speech at Home?

When a child has a speech disruption it can be very tempting for their families to try to make things easy for them by not encouraging to speak as much at ho...

Including Siblings in Speech Practice

Children who have siblings automatically have friends, rivals, competitors and even, on occasion, enemies. Children who also have speech disruptions often fi...

Encouraging Speech Through Charades

Children love to play, and very often they won’t even realise that they are learning while they are having so much fun. Charades is a quick and easy game t...

Moving Beyond Baby Talk

Most adults lapse in to some form of “baby talk” when interacting with infants and small children. Generally this takes the form of using nonsense words,...

Nursery Songs and Speech

Nursery songs are an easy, fun way for children to practice their speech. Very often these rhymes are taught during speech therapy sessions, usually along wi...

Speech Therapy: Target Sounds

In speech therapy “target sounds” are those which are specifically selected to be practiced by the child, therapist and parents at home. These sounds are...

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