For many families, tablets, toys, or TV shows have become an important factor in the success of their child's mealtime. There are many...

Written by Dr. Marina Gonchar Breathing is a fundamental and automatic function, however, the way we breathe can have a significant...

Mealtime is a great opportunity to converse about your day and spend time with family. It is also the perfect opportunity for learning...

There are a number of special services that are available to children through their school and speech therapy is one of them. Some...

Attending daycare and school is an exciting time for children. Children begin to build friendships (or more friendships), learn to share,...

Play is the most optimal way to work on speech and language skills with our little ones. Play is how children learn about their interests...

Although it may seem backwards, play-based food activities can be very helpful when introducing or exposing your picky eater to new...

Communication is important for building connections with others. Whether we’re telling others what we want, need, are interested in, or...

The purpose of feeding therapy is to help clients develop effective feeding behaviors and to make eating a more enjoyable experience for...

Pragmatic language, or social communication, is important for our everyday relationships. Check out these pragmatic language milestones.

Children learn communication through observation, listening, and imitating those around them. When you think about communication...

Children learn to speak at a very young age. While at first it may not sound like what we think of as “speech”, they communicate through...

When a person is speaking or eating, we expect them to have a strong and stable jaw at midline. But this isn’t true for everyone! Jaw...

The lifelong automatic response that helps prevent choking is called the gag reflex. Everyone has this reflex, however it may be more...

Hypotonia is a medical term used to describe decreased muscle tone, or the amount of tension we have in our muscles. Our muscle tone...

Speech and language are the skills we use to communicate with others and children acquire these skills at his or her own pace. If you...

Autism is a neurological difference that affects how a person interacts with the world around them. It is characterized by differences in...

Executive functioning skills are the steps that enable us to successfully plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and take on...

It’s dinner time and you are trying yet again to get your child to eat something off their plate. You finally get a little bite of food...

The famous psychologist Jean Piaget once said, “Play is the work of the child.” As speech-language pathologists, we completely agree! A...