Have you read the staggering statistics regarding the number of traumatic brain injury (TBI) impacting boys and girls of all ages? According to a press release distributed by American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, each year U.S. hospital emergency departments treat over 170,000 sports- and recreation-related TBIs, including concussions, in children and teens—and more cases go unrecognized or…
Join us for a Continuing Education workshop entitled, “Integrating Fast ForWord: A Program to Improve Processing, Memory, and Attention Skills into your Speech-Language Practice” on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, from 5:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at our office located at 977 Main Street, Watham, MA. The speakers will be Renee Matlock, M.S., CCC-SLP and Heather…
On July 21, 2015 we hosted Sean Sweeney to present a seminar at Communicative Health Care Associates on the topic of “Applying Technology to Support Social and Executive Functioning.” As a speech-language pathologist with additional background in instructional technology, Sean Sweeney focused this session toward helping participants analyze the features of apps and other resources…
Join us for a workshop entitled, “Applying Technology to Support Social and Executive Functioning” on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, from 5:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at our office located at 977 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts (30 minutes from Boston). The speaker will be Sean Sweeney, M.S., M.Ed., CCC-SLP, a speech-language pathologist and technology specialist…
Early detection of speech, language, and hearing issues is absolutely critical to improving academic, social, and career outcomes—and improving one’s quality of life at any age. Do you know the early signs of a communication disorder? Child Signs of a Language Disorder Does not smile or interact with others (birth and older) Does not babble…
A workshop entitled, “Voice Disorders in Adults and Children, and Therapy Strategies” will be presented on Wednesday, September 17, 2014, from 5:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at our office located at 977 Main Street in Waltham, MA. The speaker at this event will be Chandler Clover Thompson, D.M.A., M.S., CCC-SLP. Dr. Thompson, who holds a…
A workshop entitled, “Outside the Box – iPad for SLPs – Apps Through a Language Lens” will be presented on Thursday, June 26, 2014 from 5:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at our office located at 977 Main Street in Waltham, MA. The speaker is Sean Sweeney, M.S., M.Ed., CCC-SLP, a speech-language pathologist and technology specialist…
We want to share an upcoming Continuing Education opportunity for speech language pathologists held at Emerson College in Boston on April 5, 2014. Here’s an overview of the workshop. This workshop will demonstrate a variety of visual and interactive applications that can be used with students with difficulties in social cognition and executive functioning, particularly…
The song “Speak To Me” in this music video was written by Mike Guerrieri who also plays guitar in this recording. For information about this musician, his inspiration for the song celebrating audiologists and speech-language pathologists, and to read the song lyrics, visit the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association website.