"I was looking through my 'noclars and saw an elfent eating sketti at the hopital" she said. Who am I kidding? They ALL say this! Polysyllabic or multisyllabic words ring alarm bells for me on many fronts. Sure, it COULD be poor phonological …
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Are You the Typical Speech Pathologist?
Stereotyping is not my intention here. It's just that I've been hanging out on Instagram and Facebook a bit more frequently than usual and - well, okay... if I'm honest I've been glued to my phone like a millenial (crap, is that me stereotyping …
Most Effective Tricks To Get An Oral Motor Assessment Done
It's your classic Mexican stand-off of the speech pathology kind. You want to look inside a kid's mouth and get them to perform a couple of simple oral motor movements as part of your articulation assessment but it appears that they have come down …
My secret SLP weapon for working with teenagers
I had a secret weapon when I worked with teenagers in the United States. It immediately cut down the eye rolls when I was there to collect them. These teens actually started conversations with me and not the over way around. And just by association, …