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4 Reasons Your Child Needs Home Practice for Speech Therapy

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  1: Faster Improvement = More Repetition  Regular practice helps anyone learning a new skill—such as driving, cooking, typing, etc.—achieve better outcomes more rapidly. Likewise, your child's speech will improve much more quickly if they practise their goal speech sounds regularly. According to the most recent study, children must repeat their target speech sounds 70 to 100 times weekly to progress towards their objectives. Home should be a top priority if you want your child to spend less time in therapy and more time confidently speaking up about a storm on the playground.    2: Speech Therapy Appointments Only Take Up a Small Part of Your Week  Your child visits the speech pathologist far less frequently than they spend at home. A therapist often meets with paediatric patients 1-2 times each week. Regular home practice is crucial to stay on track and accomplish your speech therapy goals as quickly as possible, even though this 1:1 intensive speech therapy i...

Five Easy Ways to Support Speech and Language Development

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  Here are five language exercises for young children and toddlers that you can use now. These speech and language development exercises will benefit your toddler, preschooler, and 2-3-year-old child. Let us now work on some language-learning exercises!    1. Structural Elements    Building towers and similar constructions is not just a good game to enjoy; it is also a great way to practise language. Adjectives like "higher" and "up" can be introduced, as well as verbs like "build" and "fall," as well as numbers and colours. Spend time explaining to your child what occurs when each block is added, and make sure they use the appropriate words to express the activity. Our favourite speech treatment tools can be found here.  2. Role Playing    Dress-up games are popular among kids, and role-playing games let your child use his or her imagination freely. You may introduce new words and aid with your child's language development by adding other ch...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

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  A child behavioural consultant will seek to clarify if your child exhibits chronic attention problems AND/OR hyperactive-impulsive behaviours that affect their capacity to function well at school, home, and socially to get a proven diagnosis of ADHD.    Children with attention problems may exhibit the following behaviours:    -Makes casual errors in their academic work or ignores important details  -Having trouble concentrating on work or play activities that are not enjoyable (such as during educational sessions or mealtimes).  -Even when there are no evident distractions, individuals appear distracted or do not listen when talking to them.  -fails to complete assignments or obey directions  -begins work but immediately loses interest or becomes distracted easily  -loses or misplaces stuff  -possesses a weak sense or perception of time  -resists, dislikes, or avoids jobs that require mental effort, such as schoolwork  -...