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Entries in Speech (12)

Tuesday
May202014

Apps for Speech

Finding apps in the Apps Store can be a daunting task, especially when looking for apps to suit a particular purpose. If you are looking for apps to supplement your child's "speech work" at home, here are apps developed specifically to target speech sound production skills.

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Wednesday
May142014

Apraxia, Fluency, Voice, oh my! The S in SLP

The "S" in SLP stands for "speech" and is probably the most widely known part of a SLPs job. But, did you know that difficulties with "speech" include a variety of different diagnoses? "Speech" can mean: articulation, phonological process, apraxia, dysarthria, fluency, voice...

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Wednesday
Feb192014

Letter of the Week: E

While we still have some consonant letter-sounds, we have finally come to the final vowel letter-sound! Did you know the letter 'E' is the most common letter in English?

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Tuesday
Oct292013

Letter of the Week: U

Well, it’s time we faced facts. We have returned to the time of year when rain is our frequent companion. So we are going to talk “umbrellas” for a week. A stretch, you say? Pi-shaw! Okay, okay. I knew without thinking about it that ‘X’ was going to be a challenge in the theme department. It wasn’t until I started thinking about it that I realized ‘U’ also presents a challenge (although not to the same extent). And for the the hardcore Seattleites who never use umbrellas…well, it’s good to know what one is so we can tell stories about how we saw one invert on someone in the windy rain. Anyone up for singing in the rain, twirling an umbrella?

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Monday
Sep162013

Letter of the Week:  I

‘I’ is a vowel. It makes more than one sound. From a speech perspective, short ‘i’ (as in insect) is a “smile” sound.

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