When your child starts having trouble pronouncing some words, or saying certain sounds, you might have to consider taking your child to see a speech therapist. But, what exactly do speech therapists help with exactly? Speech therapists, or speech pathologists, can help out with a variety of problems associated with children and their speech patterns. […]

It can be difficult to list specific speech problems with young children, as they are just learning to speak, but it is important to know what to expect. Children will commonly mispronounce words, or use certain letters in place of others, without there being any need for concern. In fact, many of these “issues” can […]

Are you constantly thinking of various techniques and methods to get your child to start talking? Speech language therapists have a lot of tricks up their sleeves to help you out. One most commonly used is “Communication Temptations” (Wetherby and Prizant, 1989). This little strategy can be used to help a late-talker start talking, to […]