Age-by-Age: Helping Your Child with Early Literacy
As our children get ready to go back to school or daycare, it is a great time to freshen up on our “teaching” skills as parents. Below are a few helpful tips on how you can make early literacy a priority (and more interesting!) for your little ones. 2-3 Year Olds: Read to your child […]
Does My Toddler or Preschool Child Need Speech Therapy?
As parents, we want our children to succeed. From blowing bubbles to sitting up and from rolling over to first foods; each step of the way we watch and celebrate as a milestone is reached. But sometimes, our kids need a little extra help. Parents often find it difficult to determine if their child is […]
Why Your Speech Therapist Recommends Social Communication Group Therapy
Do you ever wonder why your Speech-language pathologist recommends your child attend group therapy to supplement their individual speech therapy sessions?
The Speech Therapy Centres of Canada Releases Reading List for Child Language Growth
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 skills through reading. The list is divided by age, with selections for babies and toddlers […]
How Speech Language Pathologists Can Help with Communication
Think back to a recent cocktail party you attended with distant relatives or unfamiliar co-workers in a new job setting: Did you dread getting ready for the event? Imagine how young children and adolescents feel at school on the playground when they have difficulty making friends. We often see that people with a diagnosis of […]
How to Help Children Overcome Stuttering in the Classroom
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, actress Emily Blunt and America’s Got Talent contestant Drew Lynch, who took to the […]
Perfect Pitch: The Role of Speech Therapy in Transgender Transition
While Caitlyn Jenner’s April 20/20 interview and July Vanity Fair cover and feature have raised awareness of the transgender transition process, there is little public knowledge about some of the non-surgical procedures and therapies undertaken as part of this overall transition. Speech therapy, for instance, is not something many people would consider when thinking about […]
The Speech Therapy Centres of Canada Ltd. Raises Awareness on Transgender Speech Therapy Needs
The Speech Therapy Centres of Canada (www.SpeechTherapyCentres.com), in light of the recent 20/20 interview on April 24 and upcoming Vanity Fair feature with Olympic gold medalist and celebrity Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is releasing a statement to raise awareness on the role speech therapy can play in a person’s gender transition and […]
Diagnosis: Speech and/or Language Delay Reinforcing Therapy Goals at Home
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 great first step, but you may wonder if, as a parent, there is even more […]
Speech Therapy Stories: Wumping in the Basement
Meet Nikki. She’s all grown up now, but when she was a child, she visited a speech therapist. This is her story. Although I was only four years old I have clear, vivid memory of the moment I realized I was going to be in more trouble than normal. It’s an image of me standing […]