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Hearing Loss and Services Provided by SLPs
Children with a hearing impairment, especially at a young age can have difficulties acquiring speech and language skills. Hearing loss can range in severity from mild, moderate, severe, to profound...
What is vocal Hygiene?
Our vocal folds are what we use to produce voicing for speech. Vocal folds are thin elastic bands of tissue found in the larynx. When we breathe air builds up..
What is Dysarthria?
Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder typically due to neurologic impairment of some kind (i.e., stroke, Parkinson’s disease, TBI, etc.) that results in an inability to properly move the muscles..
Phonological Awareness
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the individual sounds of a language. That is the ability to combine sounds together (e.g., /p/, /a/, and /t/ becomes “pat”)..
Articulation vs. Phonological disorders
Not all speech sound disorders are alike! We often hear words like articulation and phonology used when talking about speech and disordered sound production. But what is the difference between..
