For Better Hearing & Speech Month (#BHSM) this month I have been writing a blog series on what parents wished they had known sooner. The focus this week is the third theme: Augmentative-Alternative Communication (AAC)!
AAC, BHSM, early intervention | in AAC, BHSM Last week I started a blog series for Better Hearing & Speech Month (#BHSM) on what parents wished they had known sooner. In preparation for writing my BHSM newsletter this year, I posed the following questions to parents of children already receiving speech-language services: What do you wish you had learned sooner? What do you wish others understood? Three themes emerged in their responses. You can read about the first theme in my post #BHSM: Early Intervention Counts! Today I want to focus on the second theme: parent education.
BHSM, early intervention, parent education | in BHSM May is Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM). This year's theme is Early Intervention Counts! As I contemplated a topic for my BHSM newsletter this year, I started to wonder what parents wished they had known earlier. So I started asking.
BHSM, early intervention | in BHSM For the past several years, I have tried to do something special in April/May for Autism Awareness Month or Better Hearing and Speech Month. Last year, I finally...
Earlier this month, I wrote a post about speech (Apraxia, Fluency, Voice, oh my! The S in SLP) and another about language (Receptive, Expressive; Oral, Written - The L in SLP). In this post, I want to focus on what I consider the most important part of my job: communication (the "P" in SLP)! What is communication? And why to I make a distinction between speech, language, and communication? Read on!
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