Why Saying "No" to the Sippy Cup is the Way to Go!
Ask any mom if they’d like to switch to a product for their child that reduces messes and spills, is affordable, and is super convenient and you’re bound to get a resounding yes! However, sometimes (and maybe more often than we care to admit!) convenience and ease can come with not-so-great consequences. That’s why, we as Speech Language Pathologists who have studied feeding and swallowing development, urge you to ditch the sippy cup! Here are some reasons why: The sippy cup
Speech Development - How Recent Data Has Changed Our Thinking
If you do a google search for “when should my child be able to say /r/?”, you will likely get a range of ages suggested. Over the past 2-3 years, data (particularly a cross-linguistic review of studies ranging from 1931-2016 listed below) has changed our thinking that certain speech sounds should be targeted earlier than previously thought (for the complete article, see https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100). These researchers concluded that by 5 years of age,
