Back to All News Expert Tips on Easing Back to Speech Therapy for the School Year   Read this article on: Long Island Press

Back to All News Coaching Parents to Foster Their Child’s Expressive Language Skills An excellent article written by Tracy Sippl and the following suggested activities that parents can use to help a child grasp a language concept. This article explains parents wanting their toddler with autism spectrum disorder to label an apple… Present the child with several apples, preferably of different colors. Talk about the outside of the apples: color, shape, size, smell, taste and texture. Cut open the apples (“What do you see?”) , and eat some of each, talking about how it sounds and tastes...

Back to All News Insight into causes, types and treatment of aphasia Most people who are familiar with the term associate it with stroke (i.e., brain damage caused by disrupted blood flow to the brain). But aphasia, an impairment of language, is not always caused by stroke. Really, a variety of brain conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases (brain disorders that worsen over time), can cause aphasia. Aphasia affects more than 2 million Americans, according to the National Aphasia Association. It is an acquired language disorder brought on by specific damage to the left half of...

Back to All News Telepractice: Providing Speech-Language Pathology Services at a Distance Telepractice is the application of telecommunications technology to the delivery of speech language pathology and audiology professional services at a distance by linking clinician to client or clinician to clinician for assessment, intervention, and/or consultation. Supervision, mentoring, pre-service, and continuing education are other activities that may be conducted through the use of technology. However, these activities are not included in ASHA’s definition of telepractice and are best referred...