PROMPT Speech Therapy, Looking at the WHOLE Child

PROMPT Speech Therapy, Looking at the WHOLE Child

PROMPT therapy stands for PROMPTS for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets. During PROMPT therapy, the speech therapist will touch and move the patient’s tongue, lips, jaw, and cheeks to help elicit and correct certain sounds. All the PROMPTS are done on the...
What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech?

What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech?

This is a difficult question to answer, as there are many schools of thought on the diagnosis and treatment of Apraxia of Speech. While Speech Apraxia affects people of all ages and manifests itself differently from one person to the next, Speech Apraxia in adults is...
My 2 year old isn’t talking! Should I be concerned?

My 2 year old isn’t talking! Should I be concerned?

This is the most common question we get at Bayside Pediatric Therapy. According to the American Speech and Hearing Association if a child does not have at least 50 words, they should be evaluated for a speech and language delay. At the age of two, they should be...