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02/21/2014

I am guilty of this...many people don't know that Speech Language Pathologists have a broad scope of practice...expressive language, receptive (cognition) language, articulation, feeding/swallowing, accent modification...and the list goes on...I am guilty of this...many people don't know that Speech Language Pathologists have a broad scope of practice...expressive language, receptive (cognition) language, articulation, feeding/swallowing, accent modification...and the list goes on...

by Felicia Sison Conlan, M.S., CCC-SLP Editor's Note:  This article originally appeared in the CSHA Newsletter.  It is reprinted here, with the express permission of CSHA and the author. Speech-Language Pathologists agree that public awareness of the profession needs to improve. To raise public cons...

02/18/2014

When talking to children, using child-directed speech and longer sentences was associated with better language processing and wider vocabularies, a study showed. "Speech needs to be rich and complex," said psychologist Erika Hoff. The findings were presented at the American Association for the Advan...

01/17/2014

[Source:  ASHAsphere] by Melanie Potock MA, CCC-SLP Sippy Cups became all the rage in the 1980s, along with oversized shoulder pads, MC Hammer parachute pants and bangs that stood up like a water spout on top of your head.   A mechanical engineer, tired of his toddler’s trail of juice throughout the...

12/02/2013

It is always important to review what you are going to say when doing an interview. If you are not sure of how to pronounce a name/word, choose another word.

Case in point, Antonio Smith pronounced, "Nostradamus" as "Tonostradamus" in an interview after a game.