Suffering from a stroke can be a scary and challenging experience, causing brain damage that may lead to communication difficulties with language, speech, voice, cognition and even swallowing.
- Do you miss out on career advancement opportunities because of your accent?
- Do people often ask you to repeat yourself?
- Do you avoid speaking in English because you are afraid to make mistakes?
- Do you struggle to communicate at parties or social events?
Regardless of your native language, an accent can make it harder for others to understand you and cause frustration. An accent modification program can reduce communication breakdowns, enhancing both your clarity and confidence.
Tags: Language, Communication, Speech
Reading books with your preschooler is one of the best ways to increase language and pre-literacy skills. Language skills include listening (comprehending or understanding of concepts) and speaking (expressing thoughts, ideas, concepts, and feelings). Pre-literacy skills are those behaviors associated with successful reading development and include strong vocabulary and narrative skills, interest in books, print awareness, and phonological awareness. Some phonological awareness tasks for a preschool-aged child are rhyming, segmenting and blending syllables into words, and identifying beginning and ending sounds in words.
Tags: Learning, Language, Communication, Speech
There are countless reasons why the Community Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CCDHH) is a wonderful resource for Deaf individuals as well as those who want to learn more about Deaf culture.
Tags: Learning, ASL Interpreter, Interpreting, American Sign Language, ASL, Hard of Hearing, Deaf, Hearing Loss, Support, Teens, Language, Communication
Learn some general terms used by Speech Language Pathologists that will help you during your therapy visit.
Tags: Language, Speech, Communication
A lisp is one of the most common articulation errors targeted in speech-language therapy. It is a sound substitution or distortion in which the “s” and “z” sounds are produced inefficiently.
Tags: Language, Communication, Speech
We shuttle our children from soccer to karate to ballet, adding speech therapy to that agenda can seem overwhelming. However, attending and being on time for your scheduled speech therapy sessions is extremely important for your child to learn and use their new speech and language skills. When you remember what a life changing and necessary skill communicating effectively is, it will be easier to make it a priority! Be sure to schedule the therapy on a day when you can consistently be there at the same time each week. Ask for carpooling help if needed and don’t schedule other appointments during that time. The more sessions that your child misses, the longer he/she will have to attend therapy. If you can’t make it to an office every week for therapy, consider telepractice! Telepractice is a method for receiving speech-language pathology services using a computer or iPad instead of in-office appointments. This can be done from any location and may be a convenient option for your busy family.
Tags: Language, Communication, Speech
Presented by Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center & The Hanen Centre
Tags: Language, Communication, Speech
As a speech scientist, I never thought I’d see so much excitement on social media about one tiny little word.
Tags: Speech, Communication, Language
Social skills are the ways we use our language skills in social situations. Social communication is important in developing effective interpersonal skills and is critical to various aspects of our daily life. Social skills are important in childhood and adulthood. What is the relationship between social skills and speech-language skills/disorders?
Tags: Learning, Voice, Language, Communication, Speech
