Exams are never easy and preparing for them can sometimes be a nightmare for students, especially those with learning disabilities or acquired brain injuries. Students with these conditions are at a severe disadvantage in the classroom. Speech-language pathologists...
Given the importance of identifying speech and language problems as early as possible in your child’s development, what signs should parents look out for? While there are many possible indicators of speech and/or language delays, some are more common than others, and...
When a child stutters, it can be a frustrating and concerning time for him or her, as well as for his or her family. In addition to helping your child manage the verbal difficulties of his or her stuttering, it’s important to help him or her ease the stress that comes...
The Speech Therapy Centres of Canada (www.SpeechTherapyCentres.com) is releasing a summer reading list of the best books for fostering language development. The book list is meant to encourage parents to use the summer season to help foster their child’s language...
Stuttering may seem like a serious impediment at first glance, but you’d be hard pressed to argue that people like Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, John Updike, and King George VI—who all stuttered—had their careers held back as a result. More recently,...
The period after your child’s speech/language delay diagnosis can be an unsettling time for the whole family. What does it mean? What happens now? Having a speech and/or language assessment for your child with a professional speech-language pathologist is a...
