If you’re looking for a convenient and effective way to help your child with speech and language development, in-home speech therapy may be the perfect solution. In-home speech therapy offers a number of benefits that can help your loved one reach their communication goals. After talking...
Most of us spend more time thinking about what we are going to eat rather than how we will eat. But if you have dysphagia, your focus is often on the latter. It can be difficult, frustrating, even disheartening to work through this condition, but...
Dyslexia is one of the most common language-based learning disabilities, affecting about 20% of the world’s population. It is the most common cause of reading, writing, and spelling difficulties. Many people have heard of dyslexia, but there are myths and confusion about what it is,...
To understand what Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy is and how it might help, we need to know what orofacial myofunctional disorders, or OMDs, are. OMDs are disorders that affect the muscles and function of the face and mouth, which are used for eating, talking and breathing....
We know we need to support our toddlers’ speech and language development, the question is, how? It can be daunting to think of creative ways to engage our young kids and stimulate language. This is especially true during the winter time, holidays, or COVID quarantines,...
Isn’t it amazing how we send our kids off to kindergarten, and soon they’re returning home reciting sight words and reading the Starbucks sign down the street? And while at times it can seem that kiddos develop their literacy skills all of a sudden, the...
Overview Aphasia is a language disorder that occurs due to brain damage. Aphasia is most often caused by a stroke, but it can also result from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), tumor, or other type of brain damage. Aphasia can cause difficulty with speaking, understanding language,...
Who can forget those early years of childhood when our kids begin to talk and sometimes say the funniest things as they develop their speech skills? Words like rabbit and hungry become wabbit and hungwy, or you may notice that your child usually doesn’t say...
The first years of life are an explosion of development, and your child is learning about the world around them constantly through all of their senses. These early years (0-5) are critical for speech and language development, but it can be tricky to know what’s...
[image_with_text image='https://sounditoutspeech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/kid-with-beats.png' title='' title_color='' title_tag=''] [/image_with_text] Echolalia -- What is it? You may have observed echolalia, you may have heard the term before, or it may be a foreign concept to you altogether. Echolalia is a type of imitative communication behavior in which a person repeats, or...