Occupational therapy practitioners bring specific knowledge and expertise toappropriately address children’s needs and collaborate with parents and othermembers of the team to: provide strategies to facilitate full participation of all children in daily routines; assess children’s developmental and learning needs; plan and implement relevant intervention strategies and developmentally appropriate activities;
Anne L. Oyler, AuD, CCC-A, Associate Director for Audiology Professional Practices at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association discusses how even a mild hearing loss can effect a child’s speech and language.
Listen To Your Buds is a public education campaign that is aimed at preventing noise-induced hearing loss by helping parents teach their children how to use personal audio technology safely. Learn More About the Campaign.
3-4 Years Spontaneously Produces Rhyme: The child sings and chants rhyming words without awareness of what rhyme is. Ex: Child is pretending to read a book and says “pig wig jig” 4-5 Years Ability to Identify Rhyme: The child identifies that some words have the same ending sounds or sound
Visit http://www.phonologicalawareness.org/ for great tips and activities to help get your child ready to read!
We are happy to introduce you to Kris Osher, the newest addition to the PediaSpeech Family! Kris is an Occupational Therapist with experience working with multi-age and ethnically diverse children. Kris received a Bachelor’s degree of science in Occupational Therapy and Master’s of Occupational Therapy at Eastern Michigan University in December
All children develop speech and language skills at different times. We as speech language pathologists, however, become concerned when children are falling significantly below their age level for both understanding and talking. Here are a few guidelines you can use to see if your children are developing speech and language
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is caused by exposure to loud sounds and usually occurs painlessly over a period of time. However, it may occur from one exposure to an extremely loud noise. Research suggests that NIHL is occurring at younger ages and with more frequency. Noise from personal headphones, jet
