Is Your 2 Year Old Not Talking But Babbling? Is your 2 year old not talking but babbling? At Therapy Works Together, We receive a lot of questions from parents who want to know if their child needs to see a speech-language pathologist. If a 2 year old is not yet talking, it […]
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How to Stop Stuttering: 3 Tips to Reduce and Manage Stuttering Stuttering is a speech disorder that disrupts the normal flow of speech. A child or an adult who stutters repeats or prolongs sounds, syllables, or words. Many people want to know how to stop stuttering. Treatment with speech therapy depends on symptoms, age,
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What Do Parents Need to Know About a Phonological Processing Disorder? A phonological processing disorder impairs a child’s ability to produce sounds and/or is an impairment of the mental representation of spoken sounds. A phonological processing disorder, which is in the family of speech sound disorders, is sometimes mistaken as an articulation disorder,
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Reading Skills & Reading Comprehension Therapy: What Parents Need to Know About Reading Skills Reading is a skill that must be taught explicitly to a child, unlike speech and language skills, which are mastered without explicit instruction by an adult. When a child is learning to read it necessitates a number of skills,
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7 Ideas For How to Help a Child with Speech Delay As speech therapists, we cannot minimize the importance of speech therapy early in a child’s life if delays are observed. What we’ve observed to be even more essential is parental involvement in speech therapy and taking learned strategies from speech therapy to
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Wondering How to Help a Child with Speech Apraxia? 3 Tips for Parents. One of the things parents worry about most when they get a diagnosis of Childhood Apraxia of Speech is a feeling of helplessness. They know that speech therapy is crucial to helping a child communicate well, yet parents are often
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Types of Lisps and When to Get Help There are several different types of lisps, each with its own characteristics that parents should know about. They are very common in young children and may continue into adulthood if not treated properly and early. The sounds most often misarticulated are the /s/ and
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Selective Mutism Symptoms or Just Shyness? When to Get Help. Some children may simply be shy and not like to talk to others. They might talk when they are in a comfortable situation or with people they know. Yet some children will not talk at all. Parents may be worried that these are selective
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11 Tips to Engage Your Child During Online Speech Language Therapy Online speech language therapy can help children at any age. And let’s face it, since COVID and the instability is causes may be here to stay for a little bit longer, virtual learning might still end up being a part of your child’s
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Parent question: What are Two Year Old Speech Milestones? One of the parents coming to Therapy Works Together for a screening for her child asked the speech therapist: “What are two year old speech milestones? I’m not sure what my child should be saying.” Kids are growing up so fast and are exposed
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