#speechtherapy

How I Assess Speech

How I assess speech skills in children with a TON of free resources linked!

Why Speech Sounds Are Not Enough

Speech is the way we sound when we talk, so it’s not a huge surprise that the specific sounds children make (or don’t make) impact their...

Building Blocks of Communication

There are so many components to being an effective communicator. Do you know which area or areas your child struggles with? Find out if...

Literacy Part 2: Assessment

Updated March 2022 Before I started learning more about literacy, it seemed so ominous. If terms like specific learning disability in...

Literacy Part 1: Background Information

Updated March 2022 When I was in grad school, I remember learning about phonological awareness. Period. I don’t remember learning about...

Updated Speech Norms

A recent study by McLeod and Crowe (2018) set out to compare the age of acquisition of speech sounds across languages. A super rad...

Clinician Key to Success: Explaining the 'Why' to Parents

I often tell parents the first time I meet them that one of the biggest contributing factors to therapy progress is parent engagement....