National Autism Awareness Month is an opportunity to raise awareness and speech and communication disorders. When it comes to autism, improved communication is just one of the benefits speech therapy provides. It also helps with a number of other issues. For instance, integrating into the community, building relationships, and everyday interacting with others. Autistic children can [...]
Orlando Speech therapy helps children by improving speech, social language, articulation, oral motor dysfunction, delays, swallowing, fluency and cognitive skills. Every child has unique needs, that’s why the trained language pathologist at First Words Speech Therapy work closely with children of all ages to assess their needs and ability to understand others before creating a [...]
A child’s speech significantly impacts their emotional and social development. Speech and language provides them with the tools for interacting with others and learning. The earlier a child’s speech issue is diagnosed the more beneficial it is for their social and emotional development. It isn’t always easy to decipher the signs correlating to a child [...]
Speech and language development is essential during the early years of a child’s life. If you’re concerned about your child’s speech or understanding what is being said, don’t worry, you are not alone. According to recent studies, 1 in 4 U.S. parents who have children ages 0 to 8, are concerned with their child’s ability [...]
