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Feeding and swallowing disorders can lead to health, learning, and social problems. Feeding disorders include problems with sucking, eating from a spoon, chewing, or drinking from a cup. Swallowing disorders, also called dysphagia (dis-FAY-juh) are difficulties with moving food or liquid from the mouth, throat, or esophagus to the stomach. Feeding and swallowing disorders are often related…
A personal experience of CAS, a neurological speech disorder affecting a child’s ability to correctly produce syllables and words. Early signs to help you detect.
What is Toe Walking and is it bad for you? Walking on the toes or the balls of the feet, also known as toe walking, is fairly common in children who are just beginning to walk. Most children outgrow it, but sometimes it can result from certain conditions, including cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and autism…
Body awareness is the internal understanding of where the body is in space. It is highly influenced by proprioceptive processing, the sensory information one receives from the movement and force of muscles and joint groups. Body awareness helps one orient his or her body to their surrounding environment and helps them navigate through that environment.…
Pediatric occupational therapy focuses on helping children develop the skills they need to grow into functional and independent individuals.
Using baby sign language is a great way to help young children communicate their wants and needs before they are able to say them verbally.
Many parents ask, what they can do to help their children start talking? One of the best thing you can do as a parent to facilitate speech and language skills in your child is give them opportunities to communicate with you. Withholding increases the amount of communication opportunities your child has each day. Plenty of…
The Best Toys Are the Toys That Do Nothing: Choose Open-Ended Toys A study by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) compared traditional toys to electronic toys. The report concludes that traditional toys result in better child-caregiver interactions. These interactions provide multiple communication-learning opportunities. Children learn by doing. Open-ended toys do not have batteries…
What does a pacifier have to do with Speech Pathology? The answer is EVERYTHING. Speech therapists treat articulation and feeding disorders. Prolonged pacifier use can cause speech sound disorders and a speech delay! They can also cause a reverse swallow and a tongue thrust. A tongue thrust is when the tongue protrudes between the front…
Does your child enjoy singing? We do too! At Crossroads Speech Therapy we cater to your childs interests to make sessions fun, and engaging to meet their language goals. Your child will look forward to their sessions! Contact Us Also check out these articles: Preparing Babies & Toddlers for Speech How To Use Feeding Time…