Posts by Mickey Mellen
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Staff – Carly Morris
Carly Morris, MA, CCC–SLP Received her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorder from the Pennsylvania State University, followed by Master of Arts in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. While in graduate school, Carly received a training scholarship to research and explore relationships between parents and children, with emphasis on…
Read MorePre-Phonemic Awareness Activity
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. A great phonological awareness activity is rhyming! Help your child fill-in some new rhymes. Since you are focusing on sound and not meaning, nonsense is fine. Have fun! A tree with a …bee. A cat with a …bat. A…
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Read More“My son is 6 ½ and has a language and sensory based disorder, as well as a reading and an extreme feeding disorder. Over the years, we have tried literally “herds” of therapists—with very little progress. We found PediaSpeech about 10 months ago. In that time, my son has made amazing progress with his speech/communication…
Read MoreMeet our staff!
Jennifer McCullough Jennifer received her Bachelor’s degree in Child Psychology at The University of Western Ontario, followed by a Master’s of Science in Communication Disorders from Massachusetts Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA. Jennifer has over 15 years of experience as a pediatric speech and feeding specialist. Prior to starting PediaSpeech, Jennifer worked as a…
Read More“My son has been a patient at PediaSpeech for over a year. Initially, he saw Jennifer. Due to a scheduling issue we eventually started seeing both Jennifer and Beth. I love that their approaches are very different; however, they both are able to relate to my son and he to both of them. When we…
Read MoreLanguage Disorders
Children are diagnosed with a language disorder when they have ongoing difficulty with the meaning of words or sentences (semantics), with word order or grammar (syntax), or with the social rules of language and conversation (pragmatics). A language disorder can be characterized by any of the following: •Poor eye contact or attention to the speech…
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