Better Speech and Hearing Month - Did you know?

Here are a few tidbits about communication disorders and the world of speech language pathology.

 

MAY IS BETTER SPEECH AND HEARING MONTH

 

Better Speech and Hearing Month is a time to raise public awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the various forms of communication disorders including those of hearing, speech, language, and voice. Speech and language disorders take many forms such as articulation, voice, stuttering, and receptive and expressive language difficulties. These impairments may be learning based, acquired, or the result of accidental injury or illness at any age. Speech and language disorders can limit academic achievement and social adjustment within their educational setting.

As a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) I work to prevent, identify and treat various forms of communication impairments including speech, language, voice, stuttering, hearing, and related disorders.

To celebrate this month, my speech and language students will be creating speech graffiti in the main hallway at school to promote awareness of communication disorders. Furthermore, each Monday in the month of May, I will be posting examples of DIY promotional materials and/or resources for parents and teachers to learn more about speech/language development and communication disorders. 

 

Explain Everything -- A Handy Tool for Speech Therapy

In the month of March I decided to try my hand at a new app called Explain Everything. This tool allows you to create a slideshow including narration, photos and videos. Two of my fluency students used it to research what stuttering is, the different types of disfluencies, as well as strategies used to produce smooth speech. Here is one of the presentations we created:

All About Stuttering

 

April Home Practice for Speech/Language Students

Thanks to the SLPs Fairy Godmother and If I Only Had Superpowers for the following April Home Practice Activities.  These activities can be used for students working on improving both their expressive and receptive language skills or articulation skills.  Language students can answer the questions as stated while the articulation students can answer the questions using their target speech sounds (each student should be able to tell you which sound we have been working on in group each week).

April Calendar
 

 

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