PediaSpeech Blog
News, announcements, and feature articles of interest to our PediaSpeech families
Infant Feeding Guidelines
The first year of an infant’s life is his/her most rapid growth period. Nutrition is important for good health and growth. The types of foods your baby needs will change during the first year. A normal full term baby needs only breast milk and/or iron-fortified formula for about four to six months. Baby foods fed…
Read MorePour for P.E.A.C.E!
Join as Grow Kids, Inc. toasts to the Month of the Young Child and the importance of working together to grow kids better! Enjoy discounts on glasses of wine and merchandise. When: Tuesday, April 19, from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Where: Pour Wine Market, 1418 Dresden Drive, Atlanta, GA 30319Why: Maximize your gift! Pour…
Read MoreApril is Poetry Month!
April is Poetry Month! Click here to check out the 2011 Shel Silverstein Poetry Month Activity Kit! Shel Silverstein was an American poet and author of children’s books. Some of his most famous children and poetry books incluce: The Giving Tree, The Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Falling Up. Click here…
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Max “the cutie” at PediaSpeech!
Read MoreChildhood Apraxia
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder. Children with CAS have great difficulty planning and producing the precise, highly refined and specific series of movements of the speech mechanism.Most children who are diagnosed with CAS have receptive (or understanding) skills within normal limits. These children perform much better when asked to repeat…
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Kai at PediaSpeech!
Read MoreAuditory Processing Disorder
A child with an auditory processing disorder (APD) has difficulty processing or interpreting auditory information. This is a common disorder in children, even in those children with normal hearing abilities and normal intelligence.A child with an auditory processing disorder may have difficulty understanding speech in the presence of background noise, such as a noisy classroom.…
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