I recently posed this question on my Facebook page: If you could give ONE recommendation/ piece of advice to another parent about speech/language development, what would it be? (This can be from SLP to a parent or parent to a parent) The answers were AWESOME! I loved how we had a good mix of parent-to-parent and […]

“He’ll grow out of it” “Don’t worry, he is just a late talker” “Oh my uncle didn’t talk until he was three and he is brilliant! Don’t worry!” It is not uncommon for parents of toddlers to worry about their child’s development at different stages. As parents, we all want our children to thrive and […]

When we are talking about young children’s speech and language skills, it is important to think of the child in terms of the skills the child currently has (rather than chronological age) so that interventions can be best built upon these skills. Knowing what stage of communication your child is currently in also helps YOU […]

What is communication? A while back, I wrote a post about the Difference between Speech & Language. In that post I touched on communication as well, and today I am going to expand on that post because understanding the difference between speech and language and knowing what communication is is part of the foundation one needs know […]

It is such an exciting time when your child starts to talk! So exciting that often times we can find ourselves doing whatever we can to get them to do it more. This is especially true if your child has been a late or delayed talker. And what gets people to talk more than asking questions, […]