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What is AAC and will it help my child?

What is AAC and will it help my child?

AAC stands for Augmentative Alternative Communication. It is an alternative way to communicate without words. It can include gestures, sign language, picture exchange, and communication devices. If your child is over the age of two and is not talking or very...

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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...

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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...

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