by Tamiko Teshima, M.A, CCC-SLP Practice Owner & Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC At Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, we believe that all communication is valid. In honor of Autism Acceptance Month, we’re taking a deeper look at what it means to support and affirm neurodivergent communication styles. Whether a child uses spoken words,...
by Anna Dubiak, M.S, CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC It is now April which kicks off Autism Acceptance month. This might be a familiar term to some “Autism Awareness” which has slowly started to shift into its newer title of acceptance. Now, I know what you’re thinking. What is the difference and why does...
by Anna Dubiak, M.S., CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy If you read one of our previous blog posts about gestalt language processing and want to know more, read on! If you did not please click the link above and read about it! As we learned gestalt language processing is a totally natural and valid way...
by Hannah Blackwell, M.A., CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy Autism and ADHD share many similarities, sometimes making it difficult to distinguish between the two. Today, we’re going to take a look at the documented similarities and differences between these two diagnoses. Clinical Definitions Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in neurotypical social interactions/communication...
by Anna Dubiak, M.S., CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC There are two kinds of language processors in the world: analytical language processors and gestalt language processors (GLP). Analytical language processors learn language from the ground up, building with sounds, to words, to sentences, to full blown conversations! This is the style of...
Written by Anna Dubiak, M.S, CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC Why we should not use the puzzle piece anymore. The neurotypical world at large has come into the unfortunately novel idea that in order to better serve a given population we should listen to the population. An ideology we should have learned long before...