Finding the Special Needs Community on Twitter

Finding the Special Needs Community on Twitter

Special Needs

Maybe you’ve heard of Twitter, but you’re not quite sure where to start. Maybe you’re a tweeting pro, but haven’t explored the vibrant special needs community on twitter. The Speech Buddies crew put their beaks to the grindstone and came up with these special needs twitter accounts as a good place to start. Get your follow-buttons ready…

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What’s your Learning Style? New Science behind s-sound Articulation

What’s your Learning Style? New Science behind s-sound Articulation

Pronunciation & Lisps Speech Therapy Techniques

Our Seal Speech Buddy took center stage in a recent study published in the Pennsylvania Speech & Hearing Association journal, and the results are in. After only 4 hours of speech therapy, students using Speech Buddies were pronouncing 75% of their s-sounds correctly while students using traditional visual and auditory cues, pronounced only 45% of their s-sounds correctly.

Turns out, the secret to s-sound articulation is “learning styles.”
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I ♥ Speech, and other awesome letters from Speech Buddy kids

I ♥ Speech, and other awesome letters from Speech Buddy kids

News

It might be chilly and raining outside our offices in San Francisco, but with this recent batch of thank you letters, our hearts couldn’t be much warmer. Speech Buddies presents… The Wall of Fame — a brand new gallery of thank you drawings and letters from Speech Buddy kids everywhere.

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