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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
The use of ADLs & IADLs
Are your children able to complete their age appropriate ADLs and IADLs independently?
How to Start Pediatric Therapy
Who doesn’t love a good old-fashioned decision tree? Use this one to learn how to start pediatric therapy.