Picture day… field trip… early dismissal… and hearing screenings! It may seem like there are an endless number of “special events” that pull your child’s class away from regular instructional time, but at least for hearing screenings, it’s definitely worth the missed academics. State-mandated hearing screenings are a vital tool for catching mild to moderate
Potty Training
Potty training creates real anxiety and anguish in parents. There is no other developmental milestone that requires parents to be an active participant. Nobody wakes up one morning and declares to their 1-year-old, “Today is the day you are going to give up crawling and start to walk!” Through natural development children slowly learn to
Common Misconceptions about Childhood Stuttering
For a child or family experiencing childhood disfluency, also known as stuttering, the frustration of communication can be compounded by the frustration of trying to sort out myth from truth in common perceptions about stuttering. Stuttering is incredibly common, especially in very young children: according to reviews of research by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association,
Homework: Good or Bad?
Consider the following two homework scenarios… Student A arrives home from school, has a snack and tells her mom about her day. She heads to her room, completes her homework and reports back in thirty minutes that she finished. She states that she doesn’t understand why homework is even assigned because it is just so
Language Modeling for Young Learners
Parents don’t even realize they’re doing it, but every time they talk in the presence of their babies and toddlers, they are teaching language. From infancy, little ones are listening to parents’ voices and to the sounds adults make, beginning to familiarize themselves with the speech sounds that make up their native language. As they
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