5 Stages of Storytelling in Gauging Language Development

Bedtime stories are part of the routines in many households. Most of the time, parents are the ones reading stories to their children, but learning how to tell a story is also a part of every child’s language development. Just as their vocabulary evolves, so do their...

Teach Your Child to Lip Read for Speech Development

A few weeks ago an article in the Globe and Mail caught my eye: “Babies Likely Lip-read When Learning to Talk”. This article had some interesting information about how babies learn to speak and reinforced some of the speech strategies that I often suggest as a...

5 Signs You May be Having Age-Related Swallowing Problems

As we age our ability to do many things changes. There are very clear changes that happen to our body as we move into older age which may include obvious signs such as not being able to run that marathon race and no longer being able to wear 5” heels all day. Some...