Does your child have frequent ear infections? Should you be concerned with the speech and language development? Ear infections are one of the most common ailments in childhood, accounting for over 30 million doctor visits a year. Before their third birthday, 75% of child will have an ear infection. On average, half of them with [...]
If a child is difficult to understand or has trouble saying sounds clearly, they may have a speech sound disorder. Most children should be able to say nearly all the speech sounds properly by 4 years old. Some sounds may take longer to learn such as, th, v, or z. Speech sound disorder is also [...]
Speech and language is vital for a child’s everyday life. When a child has to struggle with expressing themselves, it often leads to social and emotional obstacles. Communication is a very important developmental activity that place in early childhood. It is also the time when their initial understanding of their surroundings takes place. Social and [...]
It isn’t always easy for a child to get the message from their brain to match up to the sounds and words coming out of their mouth. It is these messages that tell the muscles when and how to move to make the correct sound. Apraxia of speech is when these messages are not getting [...]
