How to help our secondary teachers support teenagers with language disorders at school
To look at the way public speech pathology services are funded, you’d think language disorders happen to a small group of toddlers and pre-schoolers and…
How to help your school-age child learn new words – the nuts and bolts of how I actually do it in therapy
Many school-age children have problems learning new words. In particular, children with language delays and disorders often struggle with vocabulary (e.g. Haynes, 1992). So how…
6 strategies to improve your child’s reading comprehension and how to put them into practice
Reading experts are forever encouraging teachers and parents to teach students “a variety of strategies” to understand and to remember what they read. But what are…
How to do a TED Talk – start with the basics
Recently, I read the TEDx Speaker Guide for a client. If you don’t know about the TED phenomenon, it’s a set of conferences owned by the…
My school-age child stutters. What should I do?
We’ve got some great, evidence-based stuttering treatments for pre-schoolers and adults. But what about for children who are at school? How do we treat school-age kids who…