Great Speech Therapy in Chicago

by Holly F. State Resources
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Chicago, best known as the Windy City boasts great speech therapy resources alongside it’s wonderful cityscape. Just outside the magnificent mile, Lake Michigan, Lincoln Park Zoo and Willis Tower you’ll find a wealth of family-friendly professionals in speech therapy in Chicago offering that and other specialties.  You may have already heard about Kaitlin’s Hideout, a special place for children with autism, but here are the ones you should pay attention to in your search for a clinic:

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Tips for Keeping Kids Motivated in Speech Therapy

by Holly F. Speech Therapy Techniques
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Despite the bubbles and the iPads,  speech therapy isn’t always all fun and games, it can be hard work! Speech therapy can be challenging for a host of reasons. It often occurs in small spaces, at a tabletop, and a variety of demands are placed on the child. While the goal of therapy is to work towards achieving goals, it’s also to keep kids motivated. Like most things in life, motivation is key and can have a significant impact on progress. A good speech pathologist considers not only the therapy goals but the variables that might impact a child’s motivation and attention during therapy to achieve those goals.

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New Study Finds How Many Children Affected by Learning Disabilities

by Holly F. News

 

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It seems that these days a speech pathologist’s caseload is maxed in most institutions, filled with individuals and small groups of children who require expert intervention for communication. Just how exactly are the numbers of children who could benefit from speech therapy trending? A new review article from academics at UCL and Goldsmiths published in Science, provides some answers.

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2 Simple Things That Might be Impacting Your Child’s Communication (and it’s not Articulation)

by Holly F. Language Building Skills Language Development Pronunciation & Lisps Speech Therapy Techniques

 

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Communication is complicated. How often do you find yourself asking your friend to “say that again?” or misspeak with a wrong word or a nonsense word by mistake? It happens to everyone. Despite well-developed communication skills, even adults can’t speak clearly at times. Why? Because successful communication requires the synchrony one of many skills.  For some children, correcting an articulation error in speech therapy, that sound might only be one piece of the communication puzzle. In fact, that’s exactly why speech pathologists do an evaluation, to assess, using an arsenal of measures, many elements of communication. Fortunately for parents who might be concerned, there are two simple things that might be impacting a child’s communication that can be easily addressed.

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Technology Makes Life-Changing Advances for People Using Sign Language

by Holly F. News

 

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Speech therapy is a broad field that treats a variety of patients, disorders and modes of communication. A communication modality can be any number of means a person uses to express himself or herself. According to the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), speech language pathologists now encounter many clients whose primary mode of communication is through American Sign Language. This can become a challenge, however, when SLPs are not fluent in sign language themselves. It’s a challenging problem across many areas of life, in fact, for persons who use American Sign Language to communicate with people who are not signers. Until now there has been little a person could do to ease the burden of such a communication breakdown, but thanks to modern technology, life changing advances are improving the way people who use sign language are able to communicate.

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