by Trent Wilson | Jul 1, 2020 | Speech Improvement
Communication is interactive and must be a two-way process to be effective. It’s important to develop the necessary skills as early as possible. You may be excited for your child to begin reading extensively, writing legibly, and conversing eloquently on their own,...
by Trent Wilson | May 7, 2020 | Speech Improvement
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...
by Trent Wilson | Nov 30, 2017 | Speech Improvement
Understanding Phonics Phonics is an approach or method of teaching literacy skills that focuses on matching letters to the sounds they make. A big focus of phonics is “decoding” – the idea that letters or groups of letters represent sounds through a “code”, that can...
by Trent Wilson | Nov 9, 2017 | Speech Improvement
We need to define our terms: What exactly are we dealing with when we talk about reading? Reading is the automatic extraction of meaning when encountering words in text – on a page or on a screen. That’s what it means to read – as you encounter text, your brain...
by Trent Wilson | Sep 18, 2017 | Speech Improvement
What does the future look like for reading, writing, and spelling in Canada? I was so happy to learn that a “Future Bus” stop was coming soon to my neighbourhood. I stopped to think: What DOES the future look like, and where does the “Future Bus” take me? The Present...
by Trent Wilson | Sep 4, 2017 | Speech Improvement
Speech – Language experts really do change lives Outcomes for children with trouble speaking and reading are not good. Much of the research comes out of the US, but it is easy to see that similar trends exist in Canada. And its pretty sobering! What emerges are trends...
