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CHAT’S SPEECH-LANGUAGE THERAPY BUILDS CONFIDENCE FOR LOCAL BOY AS HE SERVES AS HONORARY GUEST FOR CLINIC’S GRAND REOPENING
LOMBARD, ILLINOIS, MAY 28, 2021—There’s no doubt that outgoing Franco Bibbiano is a confident 14-year-old. But that was not always true for this boy with Down syndrome who struggled to …
Let’s CHAT about Hyperlexia: Echolalia
Most hyperlexic learners (HxLs) begin to communicate using delayed echolalia based on written language they have read. These scripts, or gestalts, can be meaningful and have purposeful intent! It is our job, as providers and caregivers, to figure out what our HxL is trying to communicate, and help them use the right language. We are lucky in that we can support our HxLs by modeling the target language by writing it down!
Speech Therapy and Mental Health Advocacy: What is Our Role?
This presentation discusses the top mental health conditions in children in the US currently–ADHD, emotional-behavioral issues/disorders, and anxiety/depression–and how these disorders may affect communication and/or co-occur with various speech and …
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API Heritage Month
May marks both Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Better Speech and Hearing Month! With heightened anti-Asian violence, India’s COVID-19 crisis, and the invisibilization of Pacific Island communities, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (API) have been thrust into the spotlight. Yet many Asian Americans …
Let’s CHAT about Hyperlexia: Templates
Templates are consistent written prompts that help organize information or create a narrative. Templates are an important tool that can support writing, summarizing, retelling, storytelling, and so much more. Hyperlexic learners (HxLs) benefit from the patterned and predictable support that templates can provide!
Comprehensive and Inclusive View of Stuttering Management and Therapy
The importance of focusing more than fluency in stuttering therapy
Voice Hygiene for the Educational Professional
An examination of current research to support teachers with vocal disorders
Let’s CHAT about Hyperlexia: Scripts
Providing written scripts is one of the best ways to promote expressive language use for hyperlexic learners (HxLs). We can model whole sentences in writing that our HxLs can read and use functionally to express their wants, needs, knowledge, opinions, and so much more!
Let’s CHAT about Hyperlexia: Labeling and Describing
Many of our HxLs have incredible memory capacity that allows for immense vocabulary knowledge! We like to label items around our clinic, important parts of the story while reading a book, language concepts during therapy activities, and so much more! How do you support your hyperlexic learner with labeling and describing?!