What Is Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), Really? Childhood Apraxia of Speech is not caused by muscle weakness, lack of effort, or intelligence. In fact, many children with CAS understand language perfectly well. The challenge lies entirely in motor planning. In simple terms: Your child’s brain knows what it wants
What to teach your preschooler in order for them to succeed in school: Social Studies- Part III We continue this series of what to teach your 2 – 3 year old while they are home, so that by the time they are ready to start school, they are the most
What You Need to Teach Your Late-Talker (Instead of Alphabet & Colours) Having a child who has delayed speech (late-talker) is probably one of the most distressing discoveries for parents. A number of late-talkers seem to struggle with the seemingly ‘easy’ tasks such as saying “mama” or “dada”, but appear
STTOTS stands for Speech Therapy Totos Online Training School (STTOTS). STTOTS is a platform I created, which houses a growing collection of training courses covering some of the speech therapy topics mostly related to paediatric speech therapy practice. Ever since I began my practice in Kenya, I have wanted to pass on my knowledge
I encounter many children in Nairobi who are not able to chew solid food or have difficulty chewing solid food. These 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds are not chewing and they eat very limited foods. They are very difficult to take on long trips with especially if you have not prepared any
Episode 32: Is Your Child too Young to Start Speech Therapy? Today’s topic is on a question that I get asked a lot by parents. ” Is my child too young for speech therapy ?” I have talked about this in previous topics stressing that there is nothing like the “right” age
My Family’s Personal Journey with Hearing Loss My sister’s hearing loss is what started all of this off for me. Hearing loss robbed my parents their dream of having a child they could talk to, who could talk back to them during those early years. Hearing loss dealt us a
In today’s post, I will talk about some of the activities or ideas of things that you as a parent can do to keep your toddler or older child engaged if you have decided to limit screen time. We have been getting so many queries from parents who are wondering
Episode 27: My Opinion about How a Shadow Teacher can Improve Your Special Needs Child’s Learning I decided to tackle this topic of a shadow teacher because I encounter a lot of parents who come to my speech therapy clinic seeking advise on what the perfect school is for their
Non-nutritive suckling is a natural instinct with infants. Non-nutritive suckling is suckling done for comfort and not necessarily to feed. During non-nutritive suckling, infants can either suckle on their mother’s breasts, on their tongues, fingers, thumbs or on a pacifier. There are many documented benefits of non-nutritive suckling using a pacifier. They