Back-to-school means back-to-busy for many families. How quickly we change the pace of our daily lives from the less-structured summer to the quite often overscheduled school year. Mornings can be rushed, school days are tiring and the afternoons and evenings are filled with practices, try-outs, meetings, and hopefully the occasional shared meal around the kitchen… (read more)
Facilitated Communication and the Rapid Prompting Method are dubious means by which some claim they can help people with disabilities communicate. In both of these methods, a “facilitator” physically assists the person with a disability in moving their hand over a keyboard or alphabet board to spell out messages. While neither method has any degree… (read more)
The power of setting intentions is something that most of us have heard about, if only in passing. It is written and talked about in a surprising variety of places, and if you’ve ever been to a yoga class, you’ve likely been asked by your instructor to “set an intention for your practice.” In our… (read more)
Do the long, sunny days of summer inspire your spirit of adventure? Or, perhaps it’s the freedom from all the “have-to-do” lists we keep in our planners during the school year. Whatever the reason, we often hear about the joy-filled and inspiring adventures our clinic friends are up to these days. The weekly nature of… (read more)
We field a lot of calls from parents and others about our online speech therapy services. Here’s a quick overview of the top 3 questions we are asked and my traditional answers. 1. How do you do this online speech therapy?? Think video conferencing — Facetime, Skyping with Grandma — between a licensed speech-language pathologist… (read more)
Does the idea of having a substitute make you cringe? It may be time to rethink that. We believe there are many benefits to having a sub! You may have noticed the gallery wall in our clinic full of photos featuring the smiling, friendly faces of all the folks who work here. From the front… (read more)
Are we there yet? It’s officially summer vacation for many of our families, and others are just days away. Did you sigh hugely with relief to have made it through the busy days of field trips, end-of-school parties, promotions/graduations, etc.? What does summer vacation look like in your family? Vacations, summer camps, sleeping in, picking… (read more)
It wouldn’t be June without our annual End-of-the-Year Party at the Kennedy School, and so party we did on Friday night! As a group of clinicians and support staff who work in different settings and at work sites spread across 5 different states, it is always delightfully fun to come together in a common space. We… (read more)
We’re super excited to announce our summer camp offerings! This year we are partnering with the Oregon Scottish Rite Speech and Language Clinic at Portland State University to expand our offerings and reach as many families as possible. Read more about what’s happening at Camp Hello this summer, including groups for articulation, language, social communication, theater, and parents… (read more)
It’s Better Hearing and Speech Month! As professionals in the speech and hearing sciences, we’re tasked each May with bringing awareness to communication disorders and the work we do to remediate them. It’s a big job, and thankfully there are thousands of us out there spreading the good word about what we do and why… (read more)