by Tamiko Teshima, M.A., CCC-SLP Practice Owner & Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC The holiday season is full of opportunities to connect, create memories, and—without much extra effort—boost your child’s language skills! Everyday holiday traditions and activities can become fun and engaging ways to support language development. So, just in case your...
by Tamiko Teshima, M.A, CCC-SLP Practice Owner & Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC If you’re a parent, you may have noticed that the CDC updated their developmental milestones, including speech and language benchmarks, in 2022. Their apparently “goal” was to make the milestones easier to understand. The updates shifted many milestones to later...
by Tamiko Teshima, M.A, CCC-SLP Practice Owner & Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC Each year on November 20th, we observe Transgender Day of Remembrance. This day is dedicated to honoring the lives lost to transphobic violence and discrimination. The Human Rights Campaign reports that, “at least 27 transgender and gender-expansive people …were tragically...
by Tamiko Teshima, M.A., CCC-SLP Practice Owner and Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy If you’ve been following recent cultural conversations, you may have come across the terms “neurodiversity affirmation” or “neuro-affirmation.” For those of us immersed in the world of neurodivergence (like the team here at DLST), these concepts are a natural part of...
by Tamiko Teshima, M.A., CCC-SLP Practice Owner and Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC When it comes to AAC, many, MANY myths exist (see this Facebook post or this blog post). By far, the one I hear the most often is that AAC will become a crutch and the person using the AAC...
by Tamiko Teshima, M.A, CCC-SLP Practice Owner and Speech-Language Pathologist Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC Note: Tami here! This is an updated version of our very popular post from 2019. I do need to go through and update our educational resources, but otherwise, this is just a little refresh. Happy Halloween, all! At Duncan Lake...
As parents, it’s common to worry when your child seems to have a limited diet or refuses to eat certain foods – AKA picky eating! While some kids are simply “picky eaters,” others may be dealing with deeper challenges. So, how can you tell if your child is just picky or if they’re facing more...
This week, we are are so lucky to have Shelagh Orlikowski, the DLST Graduate Intern, here to talk with us about stuttering. When SLPs determine that a child has a fluency disorder (our term for stuttering), one of the first questions parents ask us is, “Will this go away?” As Shelagh explains, it is complicated....
If you are a parent of a child with an articulation disorder, it can be really tricky to find time to incorporate practice into your day. Your SLP likely sends you homework, but sometimes it’s hard to sit down and do “speech homework.” Luckily, you can really practice speech sounds in almost any activity in...
I talk a lot about core words on our Facebook and Instagram pages, but what in the world are they and why would anyone teach them? AssistiveWare defines core words as the “50-400 words that make up the majority of everything we say.” There are a bunch of really interesting studies out there that used...