Posted by: drmolly in stuttering, speech on
Aug 31, 2010
Most kids between the ages of 2-4 stumble over their words at times. Heck, even grownups find themselves stammering when nervous or under stress. Differentiating which kids have normal dysfluency and which will go on to need speech therapy for stuttering problems can be tricky.
Developmental dysfluency is common in preschoolers and is a function of the fact that the brain is working at a much faster clip than the mouth. As a result, sometimes
Did you know that by the age of 3 children show huge differences in how many words they speak an hour depending on how much verbal interaction they have had with their parents and caregivers? Amazingly enough, long before preschool or Head Start Programs are even a possibility, children have such huge differences that the 20 percent of children who are uttering the fewest words per hour can't make up the difference even with intense
I got a question recently from a parent of a clumsy child with learning disabilities who wondered if the child would benefit from vision therapy. Vision therapy is a series of eye exercises, sometimes done in front of a computer screen and sometimes done with special glasses, directed by an developmental optometrist. The goal is to improve eye coordination and visual perception and it is purported to improve reading skills, help kids with
Posted by: drmolly in speech, development on
May 18, 2009
Recently I was asked a question by a reader about her child's speech. In summary:
Q: My son turned 2 yrs.old in February and still does not talk in sentences, not even close to that. He will mostly repeat words we say to him but his vocabulary consists of a maximum of 7-8 words that he will say spontaneously and he won't say most of the consonants in some words. He is exposed to 2 other languages other than English ... but most of his
