4 Major Signs Your Child Might Have a Reading Difficulty
For a majority of children, reading is like magic: it opens up a world of possibilities and fun activities. For parents, it’s a sign that your child is headed down the right path—on towards a gateway to growing up and learning. As grand as it sounds, the road to...
5 Tips how (and why!) to Help a Struggling Speller – Our Guide
Teaching your child how to spell words is essential. Research shows us that poor spelling actually reflects an underlying language disorder. If your child has difficulty spelling, and you complete a comprehensive language assessment, you will find below average...
How to Properly Develop Your Child’s Pre-Reading Skills – Our Guide
Children grow and learn at their own pace, which means that they learn and develop skills at rates that may differ vastly from other children. It’s hard to tell when your child will learn a specific skill, but some skills can more or less develop at specific ages,...
7 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Reading Difficulties – Our Guide
Reading is a vital part of learning. It’s a skill that allows a child to absorb information both at home and in school. If your child is lagging behind their peers in this department, they are at increased risk of academic, social, and emotional challenges. This...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...