My son Tanner was diagnosed with both oral as well as verbal apraxia. When my son Tanner’s neurodevelopmental pediatrician, a Medical Director for Early Intervention in New York, saw Tanner for the first time at 3 years old, she shook her head and said, “I could have told you a year ago this child had severe…
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Apraxia First And Now Stuttering Too
If your child has apraxia, sometime after speech starts to comes in, perhaps around the age of 4 to 6 years old, there are a percentage that go through a developmental stuttering stage. This is a stage that can happen in neurotypical children and it’s not the same thing as true stuttering. My son Tanner…
Parents as Partners in Young Children’s Stuttering Treatment
From the Stuttering Conference 2001. About the presenter: Anne Cordes Bothe, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Georgia. Her research and clinical interests focus on the measurement of stuttered speech and on the interaction of measurement and treatment variables in determining the efficacy,…
School At The Museum Improves Confidence, Communication, Social Skills
What if there was a way to fix this through co-location? Instead of day or night at the museum, what about school at the museum? How many of you recall how fun it was when you were in school to have a field trip? And what an amazing experience when students have the opportunity to…
Class Size Matters, And It Matters A Lot
“The evidence suggests that increasing class size will harm not only children’s test scores in the short run, but also their long-run human capital formation. Money saved today by increasing class sizes will result in more substantial social and educational costs in the future.” ~ Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach PhD When we have a special needs children…
Dosage Of Fish Oil For Children
“Instructions say six capsules per day for 12 weeks, reducing to two. To achieve the target dose you really need a minimum of four capsules a day” ~Dr. Alex Richardson Essential fatty acids or EFAs for short. are needed during a baby’s development in utero, and naturally found and needed in mother’s milk. An essential…
Dolphins Have Conversations ‘Just like us’
“Humans must take the first step to establish relationships with the first intelligent inhabitants of the planet Earth by creating devices capable of overcoming the barriers that stand in the way of using languages and in the way of communications between dolphins and people,”~Dr Vyacheslav Ryabov Have your children ever swam with dolphins? What about…
Professor Pup’s Phoneme Farm….For Speech?
“Nearly 70% of America’s kids read below grade level. I am Dr. Michael Colvard and I teamed up with a producer from The Simpsons to build a game to help!”~ Dr. Michael Colvard Professor Pup’s Phoneme Farm….For Speech? I read this AMA (ask me anything) by Dr. Michael Colvard, a practicing eye surgeon in Los Angeles on Reddit “Nearly…
Dr. Tomorrow Predictions Come True #PokemonGo
“Why do students leave school? Mostly due to boredom. Yet Nintendo can hold a kid’s interest for six hours. Maybe we are doing something wrong.”~Dr. Tomorrow All that is missing from Dr. Tomorrow’s quote is #PokemonGo As a parent I’ve been sharing about how video games can help with special needs since my boys were…
The True Story Of The Real Life Little Mermaid
“Crying was viewed by the ABA people Melanie worked with as a “breakthrough” With no alternative means of communication, and no way to talk, Melanie failed miserably on simple tasks that were well beneath her capabilities, and her confidence and energy for life, what was left of it, slipped away as well. The only thing Mel…