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Delayed Speech - Articles
Delayed Speech and Hearing
by
Dr. Charlotte Thompson
Posted
Wed 10 Feb 2010 7:43am
Speech is so very important to a child that every effort should be made to be sure each child has an optimum chance to have good speech. Dr. Perri Klass discussed delayed..., "that's a good idea!". Two years is far too late to start worrying about a child's speech delay.
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Speech Delay Part 3: Speech Therapy Exercises
by
SurvivingSingleMotherhood
Posted
Mon 22 Sep 2008 11:03am
We missed speech therapy this week because the little one had a sore throat runny nose thing going on. But so far it's been going really well.
The first week, she said her skills were significantly better from when she was evaluated. (I keep telling everyone she's just a late talker...) But that her sentences are very choppy. She had
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My Toddler Has a Speech Delay: Part 2
by
SurvivingSingleMotherhood
Posted
Mon 22 Sep 2008 11:03am
the Explorer) and Show Me Your Smile!: A Visit to the Dentist (Dora the Explorer ) and her whole attitude changed. Thankfully, just in time for her speech therapy to finally start. (The appointment wait list was long!)
Her speech therapist was super nice (are there any male speech therapists?). The peanut's speech was at a minimum when we went to the evaluation
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Quotes – speech delays and diction
by
Maddy M.
Posted
Sun 27 Dec 2009 11:59pm
“Can we watch dah ceptions?”
“Deceptions? What’s that about? I don’t’ think I’ve ever heard of that before?”
“Yes you know.”
“I don’t, honest. Do you mean Deceptocons, from the Transformer thingummy do dah?”
“Nope.”
“He’s right mom. You let us watch it yesterday.”
“I did? I don’t remember.”
“Sure you do. You remember.”
“I don’t, hone ...
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My Toddler has a Speech Delay
by
SurvivingSingleMotherhood
Posted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 4:44pm
a problem?
I got a referral from her pediatrician for a speech evaluation. There are only three places in my county that actually offers speech evaluations and if need be, speech therapy. Apparently these places are all sorts of backed up, because if you're child needs speech therapy, you get wait-listed for six plus months. Yeeeowza.
So we get
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Motor Mouth - who knew a speech delay could be so noisy?
by
Maddy M.
Posted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 9:39pm
, easing into different accents, faster and faster. We left my American pal on the side lines bewildered, as the accents thickened, to cut her off. Speech is one thing, but to make yourself understood is quite another.
For the moment my speech is virtually incomprehensible, without great efforts in the field of enunciation. Still, it gives the stiff upper
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Name, rank and number - A new love of speech delays
by
Maddy M.
Posted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 9:40pm
With homework completed we move onwards, but not necessarily upwards, to the review section. [translation = torture session] Every day we must practice his full name, his address, telephone, date of birth and birthday. We learned these facts a few years ago. We were given specific instructions to learn them forthwith. I am uncertain whether ...
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Speech/ Language Disorders and Motor Delays
by
Your Therapy Source
Posted
Tue 16 Nov 2010 1:17pm
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology published a study comparing the gross motor skills of 6-9 year old children with speech and language problems (n=105) with typical developing children (n=105). Using the Test of Gross Motor Proficiency Edition 2, the children were evaluated in 4 groups: those with speech disorders, those with language disorders
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Guest blog - About the Amazon Kindle text-to-speech function
by
Rudy S.
Posted
Tue 07 Apr 2009 11:10pm
Thanks so much to Penny Reeder for sending me this
Penny Reeder
Content Specialist
Gettinghired, LLC
http://www.gettinghired.com
More on Text-to-Speech...'s
decision...
Sadly, the author's Guild, ostensibly fearing that the text-to-speech capability
on the Kindle 2 might decrease sales of audio books, has insisted that Amazon.com
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