Summer is filled with long days, fireflies and lemonade stands. It’s also filled with many free summer reading programs that encourage children to explore new worlds, find new stories and think new thoughts. Children who don’t read during the summer lose an average of two months worth of reading skills.  By the time these non-readers […]

Should I be concerned about my child’s speech-language development?  Take a look at this checklist compiled by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.  Do you have a child aged birth to three who: Does not smile or interact with others (birth and older) Does not babble (4-7 months) Makes only a few sounds or gestures, like […]

The American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) conducted a survey of 1,000 parents of children ages 0-8 to determine children’s access to and use of technology. Technology is here to stay, so it is important to understand the potential impact to the speech-language development of children. Sixty-eight percent of surveyed parents’ 2-year-olds use tablets, while 59% […]

Star Wars premiered in 1977, and “May the force be with you” resonated with fans from the beginning. On May 4, 1979, Margaret Thatcher was elected Britain’s first female Prime Minister. That night, an ad was placed in The London Evening News that read, “May the Fourth be with you, Maggie. Congratulations.” Over the years, […]

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 […]