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Speech Therapy: What Most People Forget About

Speech Therapy: What Most People Forget About

May is Speech-Language Pathology Month! 🥳 🧐What most people think speech therapists assist with: Speech-Sound Errors Stuttering 🤓What most people don't realize speech therapists ALSO assist with: Dyslexia Weak Social Skills Struggles with Reading Weak Comprehension of...

Simple ASL as a Bridge for Communication Deficits and Delays

Simple ASL as a Bridge for Communication Deficits and Delays

Overheard in Speech Therapy: Using ASL for children who are unable to communicate effectively through spoken language. Simple words and phrases in American Sign Language (ASL) are commonly used by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to bridge the communication gap for...

Benefits of Using a Swing in Therapy

Benefits of Using a Swing in Therapy

It's a rare day when one of our RSI pediatric occupational or physical therapists don't include at least a few minutes of swinging in their therapy sessions with their young patients. Between our pod swings, saucer swings, rope swings, stretchy swings, bolster (log)...

Exciting Grant For Madison High Sports Medicine

Exciting Grant For Madison High Sports Medicine

All the congratulations to Jared Olsen, one of the athletic trainers on the Sports Medicine team at Therapy Services! Jared is assigned to Madison High School in Rexburg and in December was awarded a $20,000 grant for the athletic training program that he is...

Playing Pretend with our Imagination in Occupational Therapy

Playing Pretend with our Imagination in Occupational Therapy

Overheard in Occupational Therapy: Playing Pretend Using Our Imagination Using their imagination allows a child to explore their problem-solving skills. Whether they're building a space ship, exploring Antarctica, or practicing their doctor skills--encouraging a child...

Methods for Treating ADHD

Methods for Treating ADHD

Every child with ADHD deserves an individualized plan of care. Whether that plan looks like a 504 at school, a prescription from a doctor, counseling, or even a nerve stimulation medical device--there is no one-size-fits-all solution. At an increasing rate over the...

Orthographic Mapping

Orthographic Mapping

Overheard in Speech Therapy: Orthographic Mapping Put (kinda-sorta) plainly, orthographic mapping is how the brain memorizes and links the spelling of words to their pronunciations and their meanings. Orthographic mapping is a strategy for learning new sight-words in...

Conversational Mirroring

Conversational Mirroring

Mirroring in a conversation is an easy way to teach your child to become involved in and add to a conversation without a lot of pressure put on them to come up with something unique to say.