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 speech-language pathologist. This article reported that starting around 6 […]
What is the difference between SPEECH AND LANGUAGE?
People often wonder why we are called SPEECH-LANGUAGE pathologists. Why is there speech AND language in the title? Is there a difference between the two? As ‘communication experts’ S-LP’s work on both speech AND language. Some children/adults will have difficulty with both speech and language while others will only have difficulty with one or the […]
Why Does My Child Have a Speech or Language Disorder?
When parents walk through our door, they often want to know ‘WHY’ their child is not understanding and talking like other children; ‘WHY’ they aren’t pronouncing sounds like others; or ‘WHY’ they’re stuttering. Listed below are some factors that are known to predispose or precipitate speech and language disorders. Neurological factors: Specific areas in the […]
What is it Called When My Child Can’t Pronounce a Sound Like ‘R’
When a youngster is learning to speak, he or she will often have difficulty producing certain sounds and will replace those sounds with another sound. A common example of this is the “Elmer Fudd” way of speaking, where all the /r/ sounds are replaced by /w/ sounds. There are several typical phonological processes that children […]