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Speech Therapy 22 Months

Jun 01, 2010 in Speech Therapy
cathchrismon asked:

He is having his first speech therapy session using tactile cueing. This is for my family to see his progress.


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2 year old going to start speech therapy?

Apr 18, 2010 in Speech Therapy
IMO asked:

My son is 2 1/2 years old. He is starting speech therapy next week for a relatively minor speech delay. He hasn’t been diagnosed with autism or anything like that. He is just a very slow speaker. What I’m wondering is, what can I expect to happen at his therapy sessions? What kind of reinforcement will I be doing at home to make sure what he learns in therapy sticks? And can anyone share their speech therapy success stories? I’d love to hear them. Thanks in advance.


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Executive Functioning

Mar 30, 2010 in Speech Therapy

Executive functioning is a high level thinking skill that controls and regulates other thinking and behaviour skills.

This includes the ability to initiate and cease actions, attending to a task in spite of distractions, monitor behaviour, adapt or change behaviour when needed, plan how to do tasks, use strategies to achieve success, learn from mistakes, multi-task, anticipate outcomes and think abstractly.

Executive functioning is crucial for coping with real life. We need to be able to assess situations, understand why a situation is as it appears, work out how to handle it, adapt and make alternative plans as situations change and deal with the unexpected. We also learn to inhibit inappropriate behaviour and control impulses such as saying or doing things that could cause trouble or misunderstanding. We often need to be able to do a number of things at the same time, automatically and efficiently.

If executive functioning is not working well there are implications for communication and socialising.

Executive functioning normally develops over the entire length of the childhood years.

Source: www.speechtherapyresource.com

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Auditory Memory

Mar 30, 2010 in Auditory Memory, Speech Therapy

Auditory memory is the ability to remember what has been heard, including sounds, words and sentences. Some children are not able to make sense of all the sounds they are hearing in their environment, or to remember exactly what a particular sound is like, or to remember a series of sounds.

If a child doesn’t have a functional auditory memory, in the early stages of language development it will be difficult for them to:

  • Speak clearly
  • Learn to use sentence structure correctly
  • Follow instructions
  • Remember nursery rhymes and stories
  • Stay focused whilst listening

When a child is older, poor auditory memory will make it difficult for them to:

  • Follow complex instructions
  • Hear sounds joining together to make words, or to blend and segment words
  • Remember sequences of ideas
  • Retell stories, or remember songs and poems
  • Use and understand appropriate prosody (tune, tone, etc) in their voice
  • Focus on verbal information
  • Attend to one sound (eg speech) while there is background noise
  • Read and comprehend

Source: www.speechtherapyresource.net

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Under what major would the career of Speech Therapist would fall into?

Mar 26, 2010 in Speech Therapy
Sarah asked:


I’m probably gonna be off to a university in less than 2 years and I want to know what major Speech Therapist would fall into. I want to make sure that the university that I chose falls has all the classes I need.
Well I also intend to get a minor in psychology or some kind of biology…does anyone know a good university for speech therapy?


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my son is 32 months and says very little about 7-9 words, I am thinking about a speech therapist?

Mar 25, 2010 in Speech Therapy
mommy25 asked:


I am worried about him, I have contacted a speech therapist and cant wait to hear back from her to let me know something. have any of you had this problem and what did you do?


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