Category: Speech and Language Therapy

Oral habits: Practical strategies to get rid of them

By: Amber Fox, MS, CCC-SLP Oral habits such as thumb or finger sucking and prolonged pacifire use can be very tricky to extinguish! Here are some helpful tips in tackling these unwanted oral habits. Gather your team- make sure all caregivers are on board and following the same plan- consistency

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Speech-Language Pathology and Its Role in Literacy

By: Heidi Avelsgard, MS, CCC-SLP Research has shown that children with language disorders and/or articulation disorders often times demonstrate difficulties with literacy skills of varying degrees. Literacy skills are skills needed to be successful at reading and writing. As one sits back to analyze the correspondence between literacy skills, language,

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