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Month: December 2016

4 YEARS 2&3 MONTHS: COMMUNICATION GRANTS BELLE THE INDEPENDENCE SHE DESIRES

4 Years 2 Months Belle is doing well despite our crazy busy schedule and lack of consistency with her oral motor exercises.  She is not regressing in any way, but I can’t say that I have seen significant gains in her speech clarity this month.  It’s a marathon, not a sprint, right?  Her congestion has returned in full […]

December 26, 2016 administrator Annabelle's Progress Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANNABELLE BEETSMA, ANNABELLE UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S PROGRESS, ARTICULATION, CHEWING EXERCISES, CHEWING SKILLS, CHRISTMASCOMMUNICATION SKILLS, DOWN SYNDROME, FIRST SLEEPOVER, FOUR YEAR OLD, GUM CHEWING, GUM EXERCISES, NSOMEORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, Oral Placement Therapy, SPEECH CLARITY, SPEECH DEVELOPMENT, SPEECH THERAPY, SPEECH THERAPY AT HOMESPEECH THERAPY EXERCISES, SPEECH THERAPY VIDEO, TALKTOOLS CLIENT, TALKTOOLS EXERCISES, TALKTOOLS PROGRAM, TALKTOOLS THERAPYTODDLER WITH DOWN SYNDROME, TODDLERHOOD

Brain Stem Stroke: A Case Study

This case study was originally posted in Advance for Speech & Hearing on November 14, 2016. Retrieved from http://www.advanceweb.com/ Author: Gabrielle Zimmer, MS, CCC-SLP Brain Stem Stroke: A Case Study Rebuilding communication one subsystem at a time. Where do you start when a client understands everything that is said but has no way to communicate back to you? He cannot […]

December 21, 2016 administrator From the Experts Comments (0) Details
Tags: ADULT PATIENT, ADULT SPEECH THERAPY, GABRIELLE ZIMMER, KESSLER INSTITUTE, REHAB CENTER, REHAB HOSPITAL, REHAB SPEECH THERAPYREHAB THERAPY, REHABILITATION THERAPY, SARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON, SPEECH REHAB, SPEECH THERAPY FOR ADULTS, STROKE RECOVERYTACTILE APPROACH, TACTILE INTERVENTION, TBI, TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

Tongue Ties & Speech Sound Disorders: What Are We Overlooking?

“The conversation for tongue tie in the speech pathology community is growing louder among some groups of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) (ASHA Leader, 2015). An ASHA literature search has suggested a correlation between tongue ties and difficulty producing lingual alveolar phonemes (Merkel-Walsh & Jahn, 2014). Furthermore, Eschler, Klein, and Overby (2010) indicated that SLPs’ diagnostic criteria, […]

December 14, 2016 administrator From the Experts Comments (0) Details
Tags: AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION, ANKYLOGLOSSIA, ASHA, ASHA CONVENTION, ASHA POSTER, ASHLEY MEAUXCOURTNEY GONSOULIN, FEEDING DISORDER, FEEDING ISSUE, FEEDING THERAPY, FRENULUM, HEALTHCARE, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITYMEGHAN SAVAGE, ROBYN MERKEL-WALSH, SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY, SPEECH DISORDER, SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGYSPEECH RESEARCH, SPEECH SOUND DISORDER, SPEECH THERAPY, SPEECH THERAPY RESEARCH, TONGUE, TONGUE TIE

Some of the Best Presents Cannot Be Put in a Box

“That will be five dollars to get into the game.” Weird how those ten words can make me think. Okay, perhaps you might need a bit of background information here. I heard those words as I entered my ten-year-old son’s basketball game this past Saturday. I had not heard those words since last year’s basketball […]

December 12, 2016 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: CHILD WITH SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, CHILD WITH SPD, CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS FOR SPECIAL NEEDSCHRISTMAS PRESENT, CHRISTMAS TIPS, FAMILY REUNION, HOLIDAY SEASON, HOLIDAY TIPS, HOLIDAYS, HOLIDAYS FOR SPECIAL NEEDSHOLIDAYS SEASON, MICHELE GIANETTI, PARENTING, PARENTING TIPS, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPD, SPD TIPS, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, SPECIAL NEEDS KID, SPECIAL NEEDS MOM, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENT, SPECIAL NEEDS TEENTEEN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL NEEDSSPECIAL NEEDS ADVICE

Preventing Vocal Burnout in Future Teachers: An Education & Prevention Program

Did you know that 51.2% of Teachers sought medical care for voice disorders? That $2.5 billion was spent annually on sick leave and treatment of voice disorders of teachers? Hume & Wegman elaborate on this subject on their poster “Preventing Vocal Burnout in Future Teachers: An Education & Prevention Program,” that was presented at the 2016 Annual […]

December 1, 2016 administrator From the Experts Comments (0) Details
Tags: ALLISON WEGMAN, AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION, ASHA, ASHA CONVENTION, ASHA POSTER, FROM THE EXPERTSGASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX, GERD, HEALTHCARE, HUME & WEGMAN, LARYNGITIS, MEDICAL CARE, OVERUSE OF VOICE, SICK DAYSSICK LEAVE, SMOKING, SPEECH DISORDER, SPEECH RESEARCH, SPEECH THERAPY, SPEECH THERAPY RESEARCH, STUDENT TEACHERSSUE HUME, TEACHERS HEALTHCARE, TEACHERS RIGHTS, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, VOCAL BURNOUT, VOCAL DISORDER, VOCAL PROBLEMSVOICE CONDITION, VOICE DISORDER, VOICE PROBLEMS, VOICE RESEARCH, VOICE SCREENING, VOICE SYMPTOM