How to Stop Saying Um
Filler words, such as “um,” “ah,” and “you know” are sometimes called crutch words, since people tend to lean on them to fill a pause…
Speech Therapy Articles
How Brain Injuries Affect Your Speaking Ability
Nobody is immune to a brain injury. Unfortunately, anomalous and unanticipated accidents can happen to anyone, anywhere. A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can arise as…
Questions to Ask Your Speech Therapist
To the average person without much knowledge about communication disorders, speech therapy can be a relative unknown – that is, until you or a loved…
Speech Language Pathologist Staff Spotlight: Bridget Barrett
Speech-language pathologists (SLP) play an integral role in helping children and adults rebuild their lives, improve their communication, and enhance their delivery. Whether it is…
What Is a Lisp?
As children develop and age, they experience many changes in their ability to produce sounds and words. Whether making cooing sounds around 3 months of…
How to Treat Dyslexia in Adults
As we read, our brain rapidly translates letters to their corresponding sound. We quickly apply learned rules about alphabetic principles that enable us to swiftly…
Can You Heal Damaged Vocal Cords?
Many of us take for granted how deeply we rely on our voice to convey our personality and our true sense of self. Through our…
Why Do I Feel Like I Can’t Swallow?
Enjoying a favorite food or sharing a meal with loved ones is one of life’s great pleasures. While eating and swallowing is a daily routine…
Essential Tremor: How Speech Therapy Can Treat It
Essential tremor (ET) is a neurological condition affecting more than 10 million Americans. It ranks as the most common tremor condition. This blog will…
How to Help Your Child with Down Syndrome Communicate
Down syndrome, one of the more common birth defects affecting one in 700 babies born in the United States, is a lifelong condition that, depending…
Voice Therapy for Stuttering
Stuttering refers to an interruption in the flow and ease of speech. Examples include sound, syllable, or word repetitions, hesitations, prolongation of sounds, or a…
Engaging Congress
Improving the Profession of Speech Therapy Jessica Galgano, Ph.D., CCC-SLP visited the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand in Washington DC on behalf of the American…