Don’t Try Getting Your Child to Talk Until You Read These Tips
“I just want a child I can connect with,” said Mrs Chang as she sat in my speech therapy room, with quiet frustration. The fact is, if you are trying to
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Speech Delay
What the speech and language therapist will do
As a successful speech and language therapy centre, we get asked quite a lot about the initial consultation (or assessment) and subsequent sessions. We thought it would be useful for
Who do I get help from – a speech therapist or a language therapist?
Are the different terms adding confusion as you anxiously look for help for your child? What kind of problem does my child have? Speech or Language or both? Who is
What you can expect of the speech and Language therapist (and what you can’t)
The speech therapist can’t make your child talk. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. Similarly, you can (perhaps) make your child go to the
Video about stuttering and the brain
I am glad people are educated about stuttering being a real speech difficulty due to different parts of the brain not working together to produce fluent speech. It is not
What Everyone Wants to Know About Factors Affecting Child Speech and Language Development
The following is a list of general factors compiled by Magan Chen (our Principal Speech Language Therapist / Pathologist) based on actual clinical practice helping children in their speech and
Comment on “Children with Autism: How to Handle Stubbornness and Negativity”
Often when children are being stubborn and/or negative, parents can feel helpless, and feel as if their child has ‘won’, and they have ‘lost’. In this article Children with Autism:
Interesting day in the life of the Speech Therapist: Oral Motor Exercises
This is a good example of oral motor exercise using simple things you can find at home.
Impact of speech impediment
Great to see the child receiving speech therapy at an early age - early intervention! What a wonderful eg of speech therapy. Apart from the tactile cueing, the speech therapist is