Speech Disorder
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Coping With Tourettes Syndrome
Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder in which motor and vocal tics are present for more than one year. Motor tics are the involuntary movements of mu...
Helping Someone Cope With a Speech Disorder
It can be hard to watch loved ones struggle with speech disorders, but even more so when it feels like there is nothing you can do to help. Nothing could be...
What is Backing Disorder?
A backing disorder is a substitution type of speech disorder in which sounds that are normally made at the front of the mouth are made at the back of the mou...
Vocal Abuse or Misuse
Vocal abuse or misuse is often described as “vocal loading.” Vocal loading is a term used to describe stress put on the speech organs (mouth throat, voca...
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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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