PediaSpeech Blog
News, announcements, and feature articles of interest to our PediaSpeech families
Does my child stutter?
The young child who is still struggling to master certain sounds, vocabulary, sentence arrangement and the social pressures of talking will naturally stumble over speech more often than adults or older children. Because children with normal disfluencies show many of the same behaviors found in stuttering, it may be difficult for you to distinguish normal…
Read MoreTherapy & Equipment Scholarship!
Kiddos’ Clubhouse Foundation provides scholarships up to $2500 to help children with special needs receive critical therapeutic services or equipment. Kiddos’ Clubhouse Foundation believes that all children deserve the opportunity to grow into healthy, productive adults. To learn more and to submit an application, go to www.kiddosclubhousefoundation.orgor call 678-527-3224. *The Foundation will directly pay the…
Read MoreStaff – 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…
Read MoreRecommendation
1-2-3 Magic – Easy-To-Learn Parenting Solutions That WorkFrom Dr. Thomas Phelan “1-2-3 Magic” offers parents simple and effective discipline methods for children ages 2-12. A proven bestseller, the kit addresses the difficult task of child discipline with humor, keen insight and proven experience. Find it here.
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…
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