Identify the Signs: A Communication Disorder in Infants
To continue our blog series this month celebrating Better Speech and Hearing Month, we will focus on our tiniest communicators, infants. Most parents would assume that speech and language skills can only be assessed or addressed after a child has begun speaking around the age of 1. However, there are many skills to be watching for well before a first word is spoken. Humans are pre-wired with the desire to communicate. We were literally born that way. Listed next are some gene
Identify the Signs: The Speech Spot Celebrates Better Speech and Hearing Month
May is "Better Speech and Hearing Month", which is a month dedicated to bringing awareness to communication disorders and the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology. At The Speech Spot, we would like to honor this month with a series of blog posts dedicated to "Communication Across a Lifespan", which is the American Speech-Language Hearing Associations (ASHA) theme for this year. We will provide information about communication and communication disorders in infancy
