4 Ways to Establish a Habit & Love for Reading – Our Guide
Reading plays a pivotal role in life. Many don’t recognize it in our digital age, but reading skills are as important as ever as much of our information is now obtained from a screen – text, email, and webpage. Much of inter-personal communication is now done...
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How to Find the Right Speech Therapist for a Child Who Stutters
Raising a child with a speech disorder, such as stuttering, can be overwhelming. Your pediatrician or family doctor may have already referred you to a Speech- Language Pathologist to help with your child’s speech issue. Fortunately, there are plenty of speech...
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4 Tips to Cultivate Your Child’s Reading Habits
As a parent, giving your child or children the best start to their development is often an important endeavour. You will want to help cultivate not only their knowledge and skills but also their curiosity and willingness to learn new things. One of the essential...
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10 Tips to Help Improve Your Child’s Reading Level – What to Know
Is your child struggling with reading? Don’t worry, reading and comprehension difficulties can be improved with practice. When your child learns how to read effectively, he or she can build skills that will enhance their reading and comprehension skills even further. ...
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Red Flags – Dyslexia Signs In Children’s (and parents!) Speech
Research informs us that reading disabilities do have a genetic component, but seem to result from a combination of genetics and environmental factors. This often surprises parents who state that “they don’t have any difficulty reading”. It is important to note that...
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Assessing Phonological (Sound) Processing Skills
I am writing this blog post because there is almost always a sound processing deficit or disorder underlying poor reading and inaccurate spelling. This skill often goes unassessed. !! Often when it is assessed, it is done incorrectly or incompletely. As any...
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Why Traditional Language/Literacy Assessments Have Failed Us
We use models of language to try to understand how the brain processes language. These models are often reflected in assessment. You may have seen a report where language was divided in the areas of Language Content, Form, and Use. There is a description of the...
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A Case Against Teaching Letter Names – Part 3: What Will We Teach Instead?
In part 1 and part 2 of this blog series, I discussed how some of our traditional focus on letter names is not advantaging all children to become readers. I started to draw some attention to the importance of SOUNDS. When I discuss this with parents in the clinic, the...
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A Case against Letters – Part 2: Reversals – we may have it Backward
Let’s consider the issue of letter reversals – a common challenge for many children, and frequently a concerning one for parents. Letter reversals are not a “normal part of development”. That is to say, not all children experience reversals on their path to literacy....
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Socialization and Screen Time
Does your Child’s Best Friend Talk Back? The Importance of Socialization and Limiting Screen Time On a recent trip to a Northern community, we spent some time discussing what was available for children to socialize. Children are not passive learners of speech,...
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A Case Against Letters – Part 1: “B” is for bird
I’m going to says something outlandish and radical, because I’m feeling edgy today. Perhaps it is because both my infant and my toddler are fighting colds, it feels like no one has slept in days, and I’m way over my caffeine quota for the day – and it is only 8:00 AM!...
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Getting to the Source of Challenge When A Child Struggles
When looking at performance – be it academic performance or social competence – you want to look to for the source of the difficulty when there are challenges. This requires a clear understanding of what the task requires – a task analysis – and knowing a child’s...
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