Speech Disorders

What part of facilitating carryover presents such a challenge? I found one missing link involves parent or caregiver training. Often, SLPs and educators include parents in deciding what AAC system to use, but not training and implementation. Various reasons exist to make including parents in AAC training difficult—no time for staff to train parents, parents can’t come to school during the day, a language barrier, other scheduling issues and more.

Many of us enter communication sciences and disorders because, nerdiness aside, we want to positively affect others’  lives. Clinicians are, at some level, driven by a desire to help. We…

It’s always difficult to understand when negative and hurtful words spoken at the expense of others flow so nonchalantly and go essentially overlooked by most people. Did anyone even notice that Peyton Manning slighted the more than 3 million people who stutter in the United States?

February 12 is a day anyone who was privileged to know Marc Small will never forget. On that day in 2009, Marc—then my fiancé—lost his life in Afghanistan serving our…

Let’s face it: Technology makes everything easier. But what are students really learning when they use apps or online games? And what is the best way to target speech and…