This is the Age at Which You Should Fully Understand Your Child’s language
Episode 18: My Opinion about the Age at Which You Should Be able to Understand Your Child’s Speech Parents tend to ask me this question a lot, “so at what age should I be able to to understand what my child is saying?”. I probably must put a disclaimer here, that your child’s speech intelligibility, […]
This is the Correct Way to Help Your Child Sound out the Alphabet
Episode 17: My Opinion about How to Help Your Child Sound Out the Alphabet Correctly Correctly sounding out the alphabet is an important skill that children need to master to help them become good with their reading and writing (literacy). Teaching children how to sound out should precede teaching them how to read out the […]
4 Ways to Help Your Child with Their Reading Skills
Episode 16: My Opinion about What You Can do to Help Your Child with Their Reading Skills I have noticed that this topic about reading is getting a lot of interest from readers and viewers and I am suspecting that this is because a lot of parents have children who are struggling with reading or are finding […]
How to Treat Stuttering in Young Children
Episode 15: My Opinion about How to Treat Stuttering in Young Children In case you were wondering or were not aware; stuttering and stammering refer to the same thing. Are you familiar with stuttering therapy or how stuttering is treated? Please let me know in the comments below with how stuttering is treated. Is it by medication? […]
How to Give Your Child Instructions to Build Language
Episode 14: My Opinion about How You Can Build Your Child’s Language by Giving Them Instructions I find that a lot of parents take for granted or are not aware that giving their child instructions particularly children who are delayed in talking can and will actually build their language skills which in the end makes […]
How to Teach Your Child not to Repeat what You are Saying
Episode 13: My Opinion about How to Stop Your Child from Repeating Words Have you encountered a child, perhaps it could be your own child who when you say, “how are you?”, they repeat, “how are you?” This form of copying or repeating words and phrases is referred to as echolalia. Echolalia is when you […]
How to Make the Most of Your Child’s Speech Therapy Sessions
Episode 12: My Opinion about How to Make the Most of Your Child’s Speech Therapy Sessions In today’s my opinion about series, I’ll discuss 3 ways of making the most of your child’s speech therapy sessions. Quick question, please let me know in the comments your view of whether you feel your child’s speech therapy […]
How to Identify whether Your Child needs Speech Therapy
Episode 11. My Opinion about How to Identify whether Your Child needs Speech and Language Therapy In today’s My Opinion About…Series, I will review 4 signs that your child may need speech and language therapy or at the very least, to be evaluated by a speech therapist. Now, if you consider that the scope of […]
The Type of Book That will get Your Child to Talk More
Episode 10: My Opinion about the Type of Book That will get Your Child with a Speech delay to Talk More Do you know which type of book is better to make your child talk more? I see a lot parents buying books I call, “first word books”. These books appear toddler friendly with their […]
How to Read to Your Child to Grow Their Language
Episode 9: My Opinion about How to Read to Your Child to Grow Their Language This blogpost includes a demonstration of how I read to my children to grow their language skills. Part of the work of a speech therapist is to help children improve their literacy outcomes Here is a quick snippet of the tips […]