Tag Archive: speech

AASL’s Holiday Book Guide for All Ages!

By AASL • November 21st

As our families gear up for the holidays, we wanted to share our ultimate seasonal book recommendations for all ages! Joined by insights from our Speech Therapist, this curated listed offers a wide variety of literary adventures designed to captivate children across a variety of developmental stages.

What is Voice Banking for AAC?

By AASL • July 13th

One incredible advancement in AAC technology is voice banking, a process that allows individuals to preserve their own voice through their AAC device, to utilize it if their communication challenges progress. In this blog, we will explore what voice banking is, how it works, and the numerous benefits it offers to children accessing our speech therapy services.

Six Winter Books That Target Speech Sounds

By AASL • November 16th

In speech therapy at AASL, we love to use books to target our goals! Each and every book can be tailored to address your child’s needs. We can select books that are loaded with specific targets, or modify the books we love to incorporate the sounds we need. While it is vitally important that your child work on these skills in speech therapy, it is also important that their hard work is translated at home. We’ve gathered some winter themed books that work on specific speech sounds for your child to continue their progress beyond the office.

How Occupational and Speech Therapy can Assist Children with the Diagnosis of 22q

By AASL • November 9th

22q deletion syndrome is believed to be the second most common genetic disorder behind Down’s Syndrome. Here at AASL we are privileged to work with some amazing kids with 22q Syndrome. So, let’s talk about what 22q Syndrome is and what activities occupational and speech therapy work on with our awesome kids.

What is Speech-Language Therapy?

By AASL • November 2nd

The ability to communicate with others is an essential part of everyday life. Communication development consists of acquiring basic interaction skills, non-verbal means of communicating, speech sounds, receptive and expressive language, social skills, and play.