May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, a month-long campaign sponsored by the American-Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) to increase awareness about communication disorders, speech-language pathology and audiology. It seems appropriate to kick off the month with a question that speech-language pathologists are often asked: What’s the difference between speech and language? First, let’s explain communication. […]

Is your school, daycare, sports team, youth group or organization looking for a new fundraising idea?  Is it hard to find volunteers to distribute order forms, send reminder emails, collect the order forms, collect the money, send another reminder email to remind people to send in their order forms and money, enter the orders in the […]

Do you have too many places to be on any given day? Is it hard getting places with multiple young children?  Have you ever driven 100 miles in a day throughout Lake Country going to and from children’s activities, wondering where exactly you went?  Do you wonder how you will add speech therapy to your already […]

While summer vacation often means relaxed bedtimes, swimming pools, lemonade stands, ice cream trucks, and firefly hunts, for many children it can also mean a break from reading.  A 2011 study from the RAND Corporation found that a student can lose up to a month’s worth of reading progress over the summer.   This effect adds […]