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Speech Language Pathologist Staff Spotlight: Grace Ji Yan Tsang

Speech Language Pathologist Staff Spotlight: Grace Ji Yan Tsang

At Open Lines®, our licensed speech language pathologists help children and adults rebuild their lives, improve their communication, and enhance their delivery. As a way…

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Speech Therapy Filler Words

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…

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A woman with a TBI.

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…

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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…

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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…

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Speech therapy for lisp.

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…

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Treat Dyslexia in Adults by Open Lines

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…

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Damaged Vocal Cords by Open Lines

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…

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Dysphagia Treatment by Open Lines

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…

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Essential Tremor by Open Lines

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…

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