Holiday Gift Ideas for Practicing Speech Skills
Our Holiday Gift Guide is here! We polled our speech therapists to find out their favorite toys (and non-toy gifts) for all ages. The items on this list are regularly used by our clinicians in speech therapy, or used at home with their own children. If you have specific questions about gift ideas for your…
Meet the Hanna Family
Cynthia Hanna sought out speech therapy after her son Liam was diagnosed with autism and her daughter Alora showed signs of a speech delay. She knew early intervention could help both kids improve their social and verbal skills, but had some struggles getting them into a location where the waitlist was not that long for…
Pushing Through the Process
When Caroline Mannion is speaking in front of a large group, it seems hard to imagine this articulate graduate student as a small girl without words. Caroline has completed years of therapy to manage apraxia of speech, a motor speech disorder. Speech pathologists at Columbus Speech & Hearing helped Caroline from age 3 through fourth…
James Dye Elected President of The National Association of Speech & Hearing Centers
James O. Dye, Columbus Speech & Hearing President & CEO, has been elected President of The National Association of Speech & Hearing Centers (NASHC), a consortium of 50 community-based, not-for-profit speech and hearing centers across the United States. With a mission to enhance access to speech, language, and hearing services, NASHC’s members serve more than…
Can Cognitive Health Be Improved By Treating Hearing Loss?
In a groundbreaking study unveiled in July 2023, researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in the field of cognitive health. The study, titled “The Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders” (ACHIEVE), was published in The Lancet and represents a significant milestone in our understanding of aging-related cognitive decline. This multicenter randomized trial sought to investigate…
2023 Halloween Hop is Sold Out!
The 8th Annual Halloween Hop is officially sold out, and we’re thrilled by the overwhelming response! A heartfelt thank you to all our sponsors who make this event possible. We are excited to have a spooktacular time on October 28th! While our tickets are all spoken for, we’re not done yet! We’re still on the…
What is the Expanding Expression Tool (EET)?
What is the Expanding Expression Tool (EET)? EET is a tool that speech-language pathologists use to help: general description skills, oral expression, written expression, vocabulary comprehension, defining and describing, making associations, stating functions of objects, categorization and similarities and differences. Pictured is an EET semantic map. A yellow rain coat is placed in the middle…
David Cornich Joins CSH Board
We are excited to announce that David Cornich has joined the Board of Directors at Columbus Speech & Hearing. David is the Assistant Vice President of Finance at Crawford Hoying, an industry-leading, full-service real estate development and management company. With 13 years of experience in commercial real estate, his expertise will be a valuable…
3 Summer Activities You Can Use to Target Speech and Language!
By: Abigail Phillips M.A., CF-SLP Bubbles! Use bubbles to model single words such as, “bubble,” “pop,” “go,” “blow,” “more,” “stomp,” “big,” “little.” For children working on expanding their utterances, model adding one word to each word they say. For example: “more bubbles,” “pop it”, “ready set go,” “blow fast,” “big stomp.” Chalk! Grab chalk and…
Types of Hearing Loss
People can experience three types of hearing loss, which can be permanent or reversible. Let’s take a closer look at each of them. Sensorineural hearing loss is hearing loss that occurs in the organ of hearing (the cochlea) and the auditory nerve. This hearing loss happens from noise exposure, aging, taking medications that are harmful…