Articles tagged with 'speech therapy' | Checkup Newsroom

By Jenny Arey, Physical Therapist, PT, DPT, OCS, CMPT and Alex Surdo, Speech-Language Pathologist, M.Ed., CCC-SLPYour child is a real go-getter; maybe they’re a straight-A student or a star athlete. Lately, though, they have trouble breathing during …

By Alex SurdoVoice issues can be difficult to detect in anyone, especially children. You might sense that something sounds “off” with your child’s voice. Maybe their voice sounds rough, or raspy, or strained, or breathy.First of all, what is a voice …

By Sydney HanesAll children learn to babble and talk at different times. Before you know it, they can read their favorite book or tell you what they want for their birthday. But, when they can't tell you what they want to eat for breakfast or the …

I meet new kids every day and very few of them want to talk to me. I’m a speech language pathologist, so you can understand how this complicates my job. I have a few tricks up my sleeve: fun toys, silly pictures, asking them about …

By Ashley Parrott Wheezing, coughing and the struggle to catch a single breath. Sounds like asthma, right? But there may be another cause for respiratory distress in your child: vocal cord dysfunction. Asthma and vocal cord dysfunction …

Forget that Nathaniel Adams has a rare genetic diagnosis called Opitz G/BBB syndrome. That’s not who he is. His mom, Crystal, will be the first to tell you her little boy is just "a really cool kid."

We’re not breaking up…..are we? Have you ever gotten to a point in doing something so much that you feel like you just need to take a break? No … I’m not talking about marriage. I’m talking more like working …

Who doesn’t love a shoutout from Ronda Rousey? Speech language pathologists sure do, especially when we hear Ronda say this: “Shoutout to all speech therapists. You’re all awesome. And the best thing about my recovery was that I …