Having Fun with Special Needs Music Therapy in NYC

Looking for ways to help your child with special needs accomplish their speech and language goals? Why not try music therapy? “Music Therapy is the clinical and evidenced-based use of ...

New Language Development Research: Early Assessments Predict Future Academic Success

by Gordy Rogers, M.S. CCC-SLP Language Development News

A recent language development research study sought to understand whether children who were identified as having language challenges in preschool tended to have longer term academic difficulties. As you can see, from the very ...

Sensory Play Activities to Get Started

by Daisy Pasan Autism Games and Activities

Sensory play is important for all children—not just individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Sensory play helps build language skills as well as fine motor and gross motor skills. Children ...

How to Talk to My Child about Speech Challenges

by Gordy Rogers, M.S. CCC-SLP Parents' Corner

Recently I starting working with a 7 year-old boy who had trouble with his R sound, a very common situation in my practice. After the initial intake session the boy’s ...

Finding the Special Needs Community on Twitter

by Mike Godwin 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 ...

Obamacare: Speech Therapy under the Affordable Care Act

by Adrienne P. Financial Resources

With the last day to enroll in or change healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Sunday, January 31, many parents may be wondering about coverage benefits for ...

Catching Early Signs of Speech Delay

by Samantha Cardinali Interviews Language Development Speech delay

Parenting is no easy feat, many times with our ever busy lives, the convenience of websites like WebMD seem to be the go-to diagnostic center, rather than the traditional “trip ...

School Speech Therapy in East Harlem

by Felicia B. School

Guest post! Felicia B. an SLP for City Sounds of NY, joins us this week to give us an inside look at school speech therapy in a Charter School in East ...

Let’s Learn the ABCs

by Daisy Pasan Language Building Games

Exposure to the alphabet early on is important for young children. Knowing the alphabet and the sounds they make—letter-sound correspondence—is a step closer to learning to read and write. The ...

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