Is your child ready for school? Focusing on what matters most
School readiness is a controversial concept. In Australia, Commonwealth and State governments expect children to be ready for school at around 5 years of age –…
Mark Pagel – how language transformed humanity
Mark Pagel is an evolutionary biologist based in the United Kingdom. We’re attracted to his conviction and the humanism on which his theory appears to…
Doing two things at once: empowering adults who stutter to make informed choices about their fluency
Relapse rates for adult stuttering treatments are too high. Even for best-in-class, evidence-based speech restructuring and prolonged speech programs like the Camperdown Program, roughly a third…
Is your speech hard for people to comprehend? Research tells us this could be affecting your career prospects
We’ve talked about the importance of intelligibility before. Intelligibility is an objective measure of whether your speech is understood. We all want to be intelligible…
How to assess and treat people for communication problems caused by brain injuries
As a father of two young boys, the statistics on brain injuries caused or acquired by accidents or other traumas are truly the stuff of…