2023 Speech Therapy Shares
2023 was a great year at Columbus Speech & Hearing! Take a look at 12 of our speech therapy shares, one from each month of the past year. We are looking forward to another great year of engaging with and supporting our community!
Having Real Conversations
At 19 months old Stella was unable to speak a single clear word besides ‘mama’ and ‘dada.’ Low muscle tone was causing her speech delay. Intervention was needed in order for Stella to become aware of the muscles in her mouth, and be able to coordinate them to speak. Stella was enrolled in the Toddler…
Mallory & JAM
“She is 100% in her element at Columbus Speech & Hearing and looks forward to each session of JAM.” Mallory’s motherJAM is a specialized program for children with deficits in language and peer interaction skills. This program includes both group and individual therapy to support their overall communication success.
Beat the Odds
When most parents are putting away the decorations from a first birthday party and diving into the throes of toddlerhood, Benjamin’s were dealing with the devastation of a diagnosis: Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that first becomes apparent just as a very young child is learning speech. These children have…
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…
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…
Fall-Themed Activities to Boost Speech and Language Skills
As the leaves change and the air becomes crisper, why not infuse a little seasonal flair into your home speech and language practice? Ms. Brooke has you covered with some fantastic ideas to make learning fun this fall: This fall, let’s not only celebrate the changing leaves but also the growth in speech and language…
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…
Speech Sound Development
By: Julie Aills, M.A. CCC-SLP As children develop, so does their speech! It takes time for all speech sounds to be produced correctly, so it’s normal for some sounds to not be produced correctly in young children. But when should we expect sounds to develop? Let’s take a look at articulation and phonological error patterns…
3 Summer Activities You Can Use to Target Speech and Language!
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 create “articulation hopscotch” on your…