by admin | Mar 23, 2012 | Home Activities
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...
by admin | Feb 9, 2012 | Speech and Language Therapy, Speech Delay
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...
by admin | Dec 8, 2011 | Children
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...
by admin | May 13, 2011 | Children
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....
