building speech & language skills in everyday experiences
Bringing baby Emory into the world got me thinking about how much my children have enriched my life and have made me a better person. My children show me love I didn’t even know existed and my life will be forever changed because of their sweet faces. But my children have also had a huge impact on me professionally as well, which I was not expecting. Each of my children, even this new little guy, have taught me great lessons {Read More}
Last week, I was over at The Friendship Circle sharing 10 Ways that SLPs can Help Your Child. In that post I cover the many areas SLP’s, can address including articulation skills/speech intelligibility, expressive language skills, receptive language/listening skills, speech fluency/stuttering,voice and resonance disorders, social/pragmatic language use, use of assistive/augmentative communication, and even swallowing/feeding issues including tongue trust. We do a lot! Working on these skill sets, allows for global growth and development that is not limited to just speech, however. When {Read More}
Welcome to the second installment of What is a Speech-Language Pathologist. If you missed Part One, you can read it HERE. In Part One, I talked about all the education and training that it takes to become an SLP. But what is it that we do once we finally finish all this education and training? As I mentioned in PART ONE , the simple answer to what is an SLP is its professional who is trained to assess and remediate communication {Read More}
I was trying to figure out what I should blog about first, and I thought perhaps a great place to start, would be to explain exactly what it is I *am* (well, other than a wife and a mama). To read my long story about how I got to be an SLP, click HERE. Now, what exactly IS a speech-language pathologist? Well, the simple answer is that a speech-language pathologist, or SLP, is a professional who is trained to treat {Read More}
