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What is Apraxia of Speech? Diagnosis and Useful Advice for Speech Enhancement
It's a speech-sound disorder called apraxia of speech (AOS) often caused by a brain injury or stroke. Additionally, the individual has trouble producing the necessary oral movements to make the sound. Thus, AOS can occur even in the absence of muscle weakness. The person has normal muscle tone, strength, and mobility, but they can't make any speech sounds. In a typical ...
- 13 March 2023
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How Can Early Intervention Improve Stuttering Treatment?
The majority of speech and language disorders are detected early on. This is typically observed during the early stages of language development when the child first begins to experiment with sound production. But stuttering typically starts between the ages of two and three, when children begin stringing words into sentences. What is stuttering? Repetition of words or phrases is often the earliest ...
- 14 February 2023
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Speech Therapy for Kids and Parental Involvement
A parent's responsibilities are extensive. They are guiding their children to become the best people they can be. However, getting a diagnosis of speech and language difficulties can be devastating for a family. This is the hardest time for both the child and their parents. The child needs high quality speech therapy [1] and a lot of patience and support ...
- 16 January 2023
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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The Important Roles and Responsibilities of a Pediatric Speech Language Pathologist
Speech therapists help children who have difficulties with speech, such as stuttering, sound production, and sentence construction. Speech therapists are employed in a wide variety of settings, from community clinics and hospitals to schools for students with special needs and nursing homes. The objectives of a pediatric speech therapist: A pediatric speech therapist [1] works with kids and teens to help them ...
- 12 December 2022
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Important Therapies to Consider for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
It can be frightening and overwhelming to learn that your child has autism. However, the diagnosis is just a starting point; there are many different therapy options available depending on your child's unique needs. Over the past few decades, more research has been done on autism, and while there is still no known cure, there are a variety of evidence-based ...
- 14 September 2022
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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Urgently Required Speech Language Pathologists for Baltimore City
Are you looking for a company to grow with, gain diverse office experience, and build a long-term career? Together we can stand even stronger behind our mission to bring children and families first-class speech and language services. As industry leaders, we'll continue to bring you unrivaled opportunities for professional and personal growth. Total Speech Therapy is currently interviewing Speech Language Pathologists [1] ...
- 22 July 2022
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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Recognize the Signs to Schedule an Appointment with a Speech Therapist
There are different stages or methods for developing vocal abilities in young children, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. When you look at other young children of similar ages, you can see the differences between them. Although this is not the best way to conclude your child's vocal development because all children develop at their own pace, there are clear ...
- 23 June 2022
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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Expert Advice on Providing Speech Therapy at Home via Teletherapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Bringing speech therapy to the home via teletherapy for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an excellent option to help the children develop their communication skills since most of their communication development occurs at home. Parents and caregivers are the primary facilitators of speech development for children, and their collaboration with a speech therapist produces optimal results because the ...
- 18 May 2022
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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Early Symptoms of a Child that Needs the Help of a Speech Therapist
Children develop different skills much faster during their first couple of years. Just in a matter of months, they learn to crawl, walk, talk, and even to socialize with others. Every passing month your child reaches a specific milestone, For example, a majority of babies begin to crawl between 6 to 10 months of age and by 16 months they ...
- 29 March 2022
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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What is Stroke Therapy? Here’s Why You Might Need it!!
Strokes and heart attacks are two different diagnoses. Although the terms seem ambiguous, let’s understand that any blockage in the blood flow to the heart defines the cause of a heart attack while any blockage in the blood flow to the brain causes a stroke. Both of these health emergencies need immediate action. But only having medical attention may not ...
- 14 December 2021
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD): A Mystery Yet to Be Resolved
Living healthy has always been a priority for mankind. This is the reason why the health industry is consistently working to bring wonderful solutions to face all kinds of health challenges. Though the research and innovation process has never been stopped, it still has a long way to go to crack the mysteries of many diseases and develop potential solutions. ...
- 15 November 2021
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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Total Speech Therapy Opens New Office at Houston
Total Speech Therapy is proud to announce and reveal to the whole world its new office at Houston, Texas. A Speech and Language Therapy [1] practice has been relentlessly devoted to providing the best possible care and results for people who suffer from speech, language, cognitive or swallowing disorders. Communication is the process by which people exchange information. Language is the ...
- 28 January 2021
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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What is Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder and its Treatment?
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the pervasive developmental disorders that may appear at an early age of approximately 3 years old in children. It is a kind of neurological disorder that affects the communication, behavioral, and social interaction skills of a child. Autism proliferates a wide range of problems such as: Communication impairment Unusual sensitivity Repeated ...
- 6 October 2020
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How Speech and Language Therapy Works? Keep Your Child Progressing
Communication in the right way plays a vital role in our day-to-day lives. Speaking without any pause not only helps people understand you clearly but also boosts your confidence both in your personal and professional life. The more accurate you sound while delivering a message, the greater the impact of you leaving in your surroundings. But, it is also a sad ...
- 27 September 2020
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What is the Contribution of Speech Therapy in the Treatment of Autism?
Speech therapists are professionally trained on how to treat language problems and any kind of speech disorder. They play an important role in an autism treatment team [1]. After a proper screening and detection of the issue, a speech therapist helps to treat it or often refers to other specialists. If autism is confirmed, speech therapists plan the best possible ways ...
- 7 August 2020
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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Speech Therapy – An Effective Method to Treat Speech Disorder
For those people who have trouble to communicate, speech therapy [1] is the most viable option for their treatment. This therapy intends to treat their disorder in an effective way. In this therapy, the focal points are patient’s ability to express themselves in words or to understand and comprehend what is being communicated to them. Some of the most common reasons ...
- 8 March 2018
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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Highly Experienced Speech Pathologists For Patients In Maryland Available From Total Speech Therapy
Speech pathology is the clinical practice specializing in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of communication, cognitive communication, voice, and swallowing disorders. Speech pathology plays a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment of people along the autism spectrum. Not only focused on correcting a person’s sound articulation, speech pathologists address a broad scope of speech language, swallowing, and voice issues ...
- 8 January 2018
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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Total Speech Therapy – Why Choose Us?
The study of the disorders of speech, language, voice & swallowing and its corrective treatment is called speech and language therapy. These disorders are very common in children and adults also. There are several causes of speech and language disorders. These include hearing loss, brain injury at an early age, neurological disorders, and intellectual disabilities. People with these disorders must ...
- 8 December 2017
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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3 Signs Your Child May Benefit from seeing a Speech Therapist
Many parents worry about whether or not their children are developing according to standard guidelines; in some cases, it's simply a case of being anxious about the potential for late development, and in other cases the child din question may actually benefit from the inter-vention of a speech therapist. Let's take a closer look at 3 signs that your child ...
- 6 September 2017
- Posted by Yasminah Abdullah, M.S., CCC-SLP
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