by Trent Wilson | Sep 25, 2025 | Speech Language Pathology
Understanding Oral Language: Why It’s Vital for Reading, Writing, and Spelling Oral language and literacy development rely on several interlinked components. Any one of them can be weak and weaknesses in multiple components often underlie reading, writing, or spelling...
by Trent Wilson | Sep 17, 2024 | Reading, Speech Language Pathology, Uncategorized
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools Part 9: Conclusion – Putting it all together: RED FLAGS predicting reading failure This blog series explores the development of Written Language: reading, spelling, and writing as a natural extension...
by Trent Wilson | Sep 8, 2024 | Speech Language Pathology
School readiness!! Is Your Child Ready for Back to School in September? The speech goals outlined in this post are to help give parents tips on what speech skills they need to focus on to prepare their child for school readiness. There are certain bench marks that...
by Trent Wilson | May 20, 2024 | Reading, Speech Language Pathology
Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools - Part 5 Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools Part 5: Mapping, Word Mapping, “Sight Word” storage, and Irregular Words This blog series explores the development of Written Language: reading,...
by Trent Wilson | Sep 18, 2022 | Reading, Speech Language Pathology
Blog Series - Part 7: Reading Strategies to Avoid (or employ!) Blog Series: Top “helpful” reading strategies to AVOID!! (and what to do instead) Part 7: Chunky Monkey This blog series explores some strategies that a parent of a Grade One student received from their...
by Trent Wilson | Oct 23, 2020 | Speech Language Pathology
There’s power in language. Humans developed language for social purposes – to operate in, and on, our environment. Through communication, we can give to others and receive from others. The power of language is the access it provides to belonging and connection...
