What to Expect When your Child has a Speech and Language Evaluation For weeks or months (or maybe even a year) you have been feeling that your child may need more than extra help [...]
SETTING GOALS FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR
I love the first day of school! Actually I love getting ready for the first day of school. It feels a lot like New Years Eve to me. For many of you parents—I know [...]
BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH MONTH
The month of May is Better Hearing and Speech Month. So this week I am posting some interesting facts about the field of speech therapy. Most people think that speech therapy is just helping [...]
“Ten Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew”
Today's blog comes from our very own Erin Ervin. She is a wonderful therapist with a heart for our children with Autism. Since April is Autism Awareness Month, she has written about a book that [...]
What Your Therapist Wished You Knew
What Your Therapist Wished You Knew Winter and Spring always bring an increase of patients into our office for therapy or an evaluation (usually the combination of both). Many of our patients are not talking [...]
You do a Good Job
You Do a Good Job A few weeks ago I was evaluating the most beautiful eleven-year-old girl. She was one of those children that had an inner beauty and outer beauty. During our evaluation we [...]
Random Acts of Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness I don’t know about you but I am feeling a little short on Christmas Spirit. Now don’t get me wrong I love Christmas and every year I try to celebrate it’s [...]
Autumn Leaves
Fall is here! Even though it doesn’t feel like it in Florida. Fall is a wonderful time of year and it lends itself to lots of opportunities for communication and speech therapy practice. In [...]
Summer Rules!!!!
It is official--SUMMER IS HERE!!! Yesterday was the last day of school in our district!!!! I know many of you parents are sooooo glad that the busy schedule of the school year is done. Both [...]
Avoiding the Homework Blues
Many people think of the January 1 as the start of a new beginning. But if you are a teacher or a parent-often the beginning of the school year is the start of a new [...]